The Philippines is keeping its temporary ban on the deployment of new hires to Israel “to protect its citizens,” the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday, responding to a statement by the Israeli ambassador criticizing the ban and citing an improved security situation amid the ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas forces.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has intercepted two Filipino women who concealed their working visas and plane tickets in their underwear in an attempt to fly out to Lebanon despite a deployment ban to that country.
Despite the government’s labor deployment ban to Syria, the illegal trafficking in overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continues in the troubled Middle East country, according to Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario.
MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines said Thursday it would extend a ban on sending workers to Nigeria after Christmas Day bombings in the oil-rich African country left 40 people dead. The two-year-old ban was to have been lifted by January 1 to allow the movement of thousands of Filipinos seeking to work in Nigeria’s booming energy sector. [...]
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday reminded prospective overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to respect the total deployment ban to Lebanon and other countries.
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in 41 countries earlier certified by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) as unsafe to work in and thus were covered by a deployment ban issued by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration are still apprehensive about their fate despite the DFA’s withdrawal of the certifications, a migrants welfare advocacy group said Sunday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will review the status of the 41 countries where the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) would be banned.
A ranking Catholic prelate on Saturday urged the government to implement the deployment ban on 41 countries found to be lacking in protection for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Batangas Archbishop Ramon Arguelles, who once headed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI), urged the Department of Foreign [...]
A labor and migrants advocacy group on Thursday cautioned the government against “adverse reactions” from the 41 countries cited as unsuitable to host Filipino workers by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario has urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to defer the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to 41 countries deemed to be remiss on laws that protect foreign workers.
