U.S.-based Filipinos voted for 10 administration-backed senatorial candidates in the just-concluded absentee voting that drew almost thrice the turnout compared to the previous mid-term elections.
BATON ROUGE — A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that the conditions that Filipino teachers were subjected to when brought to Louisiana qualifies their case to be heard under the federal human trafficking law. According to DailyWorld.com, US District Judge John A. Kronstadt’s ruling is the first time the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) [...]
Virginia “Virgie” Perillo, a longtime Filipino American registered nurse, was found severely beaten in her Bridgeport, Chicago home Saturday and died from her injuries the next day at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital.
University of the Philippines-trained Wan Ling Martello, an American citizen of Filipino-Chinese descent, has been hired as executive vice president and chief finance officer by Nestle S.A., the world’s biggest food conglomerate. Martello will assume her new job effective April 1, succeeding Canadian Jim Singh, who retired after 35 years with the Vevey, Switzerland food [...]
At least 200 Filipino teachers of the Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) are in grave danger of losing their jobs following the decision of the US Department of Labor to bar it from hiring Filipino and other foreign teachers for two years.
Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation to make it mandatory for US employers to electronically verify workers’ legal status as a means of discouraging illegal immigration and preserving jobs for Americans.
Human traffickers are running circles on Philippine authorities, despite a crackdown on the illegal deployment of Filipinos for non-existent jobs in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, sources close to FilAm Star said. This is the grim assessment of Filipino Community (FilCom) leaders in Haiti and by Philippine diplomats, who have jurisdiction over Filipinos in Haiti, an impoverished nation [...]
The US Department of Labor has ruled that Maryland’s Prince George’s County school system should have paid for all the expenses of 1,044 teachers recruited from foreign countries, including more than 800 from the Philippines, and told the school to pay $5.9 million in back wages and penalties. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division directed [...]
