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A clear anti-AUKUS message was sent to PM Anthony Albanese a day before he arrived in the Philippines for talks with President Marcos on greater militarisation in the South China Sea. Pip Hinman reports. 

BECAUSE OF COMPLAINTS of harassment, government “raids” on call centers were suspended on May 31, 2022. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) ha

PROBLEMS HOUNDING the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry were stressed in recent accounts; amid complaints of harassment, government task for

PROBLEMS HOUNDING the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry were stressed in recent accounts; amid complaints of harassment, government task for

"I have tears in my eyes! So, I beg you. Let us watch every step we make.” These were the emotional words of Sen. Richard Gordon in 2020 at the Senate’s plenary session when he objected to the inclusion of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority and the country’s other Freeport zones…

IF it were up to Ann (not her real name), she would not give up her good-paying job at a multinational business process outsourcing (BPO). But the odds were not in her favor. The BPO industry was nearing its deadline of a mandatory return-to-office (RTO) arrangement amid the Covid-19 pandemic.…

At least four to six companies in the business process outsourcing (BPO) are willing to give up the fiscal incentives they are enjoying from the

File photo MANILA - At least four to six companies in the business process outsourcing (BPO) are willing to give up the fiscal incentives they are enjoying from the government just to adopt the work-from-home (WFH) arrangement, a newly organized group of BPO workers said. In a press conference Thursday, Alliance of Call Center Workers (ACW) co-convenor Lara Melencio said not less than four companies are choosing to forego their tax perks rather than force their workers to return to office, accor...

SOME business-process outsource (BPO) companies are willing to forego their tax incentives rather than lose employees because of the return-to-office work requirement imposed by the government on locators, an industry group said. This comes amid a trend of high attrition rates in the sector, as BPO workers are willing to…