Happy Labor Day everyone!

The Issue: The celebration of a day set aside to honor our working men and women.

Our View: Most appropriate an occasion to say Si Yuus Maase` for employees’ dedicated efforts.

Through the years, career men and women from both the public and private sectors, have given it their all to bring home the bacon to their families.

Whether a commercial farmer or fisherman, construction worker, doctor, nurse, teacher or others, each individual works diligently to attain upward mobility. However difficult it may be, nothing is going derail their determination to move forward.

Training programs are made available on both sectors to hone the skills of their employees. Such is the case because management knows well the importance of having a well trained cadre of workers. Such is especially true for those who hail from the private sector.

Indeed, over the years we have seen our parents work the clock to provide for our basic needs. They had exemplary work ethics.
Thus, the discipline that one must roll-over after work by going to the farm or the sea to plant or fish to supplement meager family budget. Most young men then learned the trade by working alongside their fathers after school or during weekends.

Yes, the type of work has changed over the years and will continue to do so as the rest of the global village embrace the new tool in the conduct of business–Information Technology. It will definitely change work “as we used to know it”. It is really up to us–those charged with the fiduciary responsibility to ensure that our young minds are given the opportunities to secure lifetime skills in the fast emerging new economy–to invest in Information Technology.

It’s time for goal setting once more. Paradigms have changed insofar as work is concerned. We hope that leadership embraces the inevitable tool of the future known simply as Information Technology. Our children deserve to explore the windows of opportunities in new industries wrought by the IT. How wonderful it would be to see them secure the requisite technological skills to compete on an equal basis with the rest of the world.

And as we look ahead to meet new challenges in the new world of work, please take a few moments and relish the significance of this new day. After all, it has become and it’s set aside for all working men and women throughout democratic societies. Happy Labor Day!