MANILA, Philippines — The PIRS, Inc. (Philippine Industrial Relations), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines-School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP-SOLAIR) is hosting the National Industrial Relations Conference on August 24-25, at the Isabelo de los Reyes Auditorium, Bonifacio Hall, E. Jacinto St., Diliman, Quezon City.

IR and HR practitioners, faculty and students are invited to participate in this annual IR conference of PIRS, Inc., the national organization of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) based in Geneva, Switzerland.

The theme of the conference is “The Philippine Employment Relations Initiatives: Carving a Niche in the Philippine and Asian Setting.”

Dean Jorge V. Sibal, conference chairman, recently released the list of paper presenters in the conference, mostly faculty members and IR/HR practitioners with their latest researches (local and abroad) and graduate students with their thesis.

The abstracts of the papers can be viewed or downloaded at the PIRS, Inc. conference website is at http://www.pirs08.webs.com.

Registration fees are P5,000.00 for non-PIRS members and P4,500.00 for PIRS members for local participants and $150.00 for international participants (non-IIRA members) and $125.00 for ILERA members.

Kindly register with Mr. Jerowin Valenzuela, Secretariat through tel-fax no. (02) 9289206 and/or e-mail address cleared_inc@yahoo.com .

Letran marks Quezon’s 133rd birth anniversary

Colegio de San Juan de Letran recently celebrated the 133rd birth anniversary of one of its foremost alumni, President Manuel Luis Quezon, with simple rites at the Letran chapel and garden.

The occasion was graced by Quezon’s family, daughter Zenaida “Nini” Quezon-Avancena, Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III, Yael Buencamino Borromeo, Alberto Avancena with daughter Liza, and Benjamin Avancena with wife Imelda.

A mass was celebrated in memory of Quezon with Rev. Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. as main celebrant and concelebrated by the priests from the Convent of St. John Lateran. The mass, in keeping with the spirit of “Buwan ng Wika”, is in Filipino.