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MANILA, Philippiens -- There are no job openings for hotel workers in Israel.
This was stressed by a dispatch from the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv following reports that information regarding a job order being processed in the embassy was circulating among Filipinos both here and in Israel.
"Everyone is enjoined to immediately report recruitment activities for hotel workers in Israel to the Philippine Embassy or Israel's Ministry of Labor," the embassy said.
To avoid being victimized by unscrupulous agents and recruiters, the embassy advised Filipinos seeking employment in Israel to communicate first with the embassy and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) on the status of employment agencies’ accreditation by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and on the veracity and legality of the job orders.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo recently organized a consular forum with the Filipino community on the various consular concerns of Filipinos in Japan such as the new Japanese immigration rules and procedures, rules on divorces and marriages, domestic violence, inter-country adoptions, and human trafficking.
About 100 members from the community representing over 20 church groups and NGOs from the surrounding prefectures attended.
Representatives from the Japanese-Filipino Children Network, a non-profit and non-governmental organization that supports "Japinoys," oriented them on inter-country adoption matters, in particular, the procedures for Japanese-Filipino children to be recognized by their Japanese parents.
In his opening remarks, Charge d'Affaires and Consul General Sulpicio Confiado said the forum was part of the embassy's efforts to reach out to the 221,817 Filipinos living and working in Japan.
To date, Filipinos rank as the fourth largest group of foreign nationals in Japan after the Koreans, Chinese and Brazilians.
Confiado stressed that it was important to raise the awareness of Filipinos not only of the relevant rules and procedures but also of their rights and benefits in Japan.
The forum also serves as a venue for members of the Filipino community to communicate to the embassy their problems and other issues. A short briefing on the Philippine machine readable passport was recently held.
