This topic certainly appears out of place in a site for and about entrepreneurs, but one route taken by entrepreneurs is to  work for a company — to earn sufficient capital, to learn the tricks of the trade (almost all successful entrepreneurs will tell you that one secret for entrepreneurial success is to gain more [...]

There’s an article (”The Termination“) in the July 2007 issue of Entrepreneur Philippines that discussed certain reminders for the management in terminating employees. The article got my attention because, among other things, it mentions that non-compliance with the due process requirements in terminating an employee renders the dismissal illegal. I got in touch with the [...]

Time flies so fast and before you know it, the year-end is just around the corner. There’s the thought of Christmas and, yes, 13th-month pay, which the law requires to be paid not later than December 24 of each year.

Office politics is a fact of institutional or corporate life. As long as organizations exist, office politics will always be there. On a neutral note, office politics is simply the relationship and interaction between and among co-workers (and, to a certain extent, with the bosses). The relationship should ideally be of mutual respect, and the [...]

The next logical step for a successful Filipino entrepreneur is to expand the operations of an existing business or venture into related or new businesses. This expansion, of course, needs additional manpower. More manpower means an increased exposure to human resources (HR) or labor concerns. There are previous articles on HR or labor matters, but, [...]

Who is a probationary employee? A probationary employee is one who, for a given period of time, is being observed and evaluated to determine whether or not he is qualified for permanent employment. A probationary appointment affords the employer an opportunity to observe the skill, competence and attitude of a probationer. The word “probationary”, as [...]

In many warm mornings on my way to the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), I would sometimes daydream of lounging on a beach somewhere, rather than confronting another labor-management conflict. As sure as the sun rises, however, sparks in the constant tug-of-war between labor and management are bound to arise. I have worked with both [...]

I guess all of us experienced, at times, an emptiness which threatens to destroy our neat concept of ourselves and the world. This emptiness is not defined simply by the absence of purpose or the lack of interest in anything (or the apparent interest in everything), although this appears to be a manifestation of such [...]