Covering the week’s most noteworthy business news impacting the Filipino-American and Global Filipino community.
THE client is young in his 50s. Believe me, that’s young. The client owns and operates a business that used to generate $800,000 of revenues yearly with good profit for…
The Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO), a joint initiative of the Philippine Embassy, Consulates General in the United States, and the Ayala Foundation, Inc. (AFI), announced the 2022 FYLPRO Delegates….
THINKING about one’s demise is not something people want to spend time thinking about. However reality is that we all have to face this one day. It is just a…
THE answer is coldly and astoundingly, yes. All California employers must provide Workers’ Compensation benefits to their employees under California Labor Code Section 3700. If a business employs one or…
Q: I’m an account executive at a real estate company. I enjoy the work and I’m good at it. But I started having problems when I went on maternity leave,…
WHAT are the things that you should not do before you file for bankruptcy? First on the list of things not to do is do not hide assets. Concealing assets…
Olivia Quido-Co, CEO and founder of the Los Angeles-based O Skin Med Spa did not actually dream to become where she is right now. As a young teen growing up…
AS Mon Cargo Services Incorporated celebrates another year of success, its management and staff would first like to thank its valued customers for being an essential part of the company’s…
Most people are unaware that credit card companies will negotiate with you if they believe that it is in their best interest to do so. Many times, you can negotiate…
After a successful holding of the Franchise Asia Philippines 2022 Virtual Conference last September, the Philippine Franchise Association (PFA) is bringing back Franchise Asia Philippines Expo to SMX Convention Center-Manila…
MANILA – The Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) Philippines, the marketing and promotions arm of the Department of Tourism (DOT), announces that Ms. Maria Margarita Montemayor Nograles has officially assumed the…
FILIPINO home care workers are among those who have been improperly misclassified and subjected to wage theft violations, according to a citation issued by the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. Two…
Q: I was petitioned by my current employer to work in a residential care facility in the U.S. While I worked 6 days a week, and often on a 10-12…
IF the divorcing parties are both reasonable in their expectations in resolving their family law case and if they don’t think involving lawyers in their divorce case early on would be…
We’re now 3 years into the pandemic which started in 2019. The very sad American tragedy of more than 1.0M Covid deaths In America, we have the great tragedy of…
CHICAGO – Everyone remembers their first Happy Meal® as a kid… and the can’t-sit-still feeling as you dug in to see what was inside. That little red box could turn…
Facing difficult financial times can be a frightening thing for a lot of people. When bill collectors are hounding you, at some point, you realize that something must be done…
Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial…
WHAT are friends for? Friends, of course, like to help each other. But to what extent and what favors can you ask from a friend? The client’s friend wanted to…
THE North Las Vegas Planning Commission recently approved Station Casinos’ plans to build a 67-acre hotel-casino at the northwest corner of Losee Road and the 215 Beltway, it was recently…
ON the evening of Oct. 28 (U.S.) and morning of Oct. 29 (Philippines), Dr. Jun David, President of the UP Alumni Association in America, Mr. Bob Reyes, President of its first chapter, the UPAA in Arizona, and Dr. Lillian Aquino, President…
20Young people, minorities among those reporting the biggest losses The promise of hefty returns is what initially drew Jeffrey Vaulx, a second-grade special ed teacher in Memphis, Tennessee to go…
Q: I was injured in a recent car accident while returning to work on an errand. I had to undergo multiple surgeries. I missed several weeks of work and will…
When your financial circumstances are forcing you to declare bankruptcy, bankruptcy can be one way of dealing with debts that you can no longer manage on your own. Of course,…
Couples get divorced for various reasons. California is a no fault state. The reasons why a couple is getting divorced are often irrelevant to the issues of the family law…
Dear Attorney Tan, I was driving home and was at a complete stop when another driver rear ended my car. I was not feeling well after the accident, as my…
18IT was 9 p.m. at night. Client had just finished his “hot pot” dinner at a famous restaurant and was on his way home. Home was only 10 minutes away….
SAN FRANCISCO – Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Neil Ferrer on Wednesday, August 31 witnessed the virtual signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between San Francisco-based Filipino American…
Debt is a common problem that a lot of people struggle with and many people want to know how they can become debt-free. Of course, in today’s society, you can’t…
THE client is 67. Her husband passed away five years ago after a long fight with kidney failure. He was on dialysis for eight years waiting for a kidney transplant….
