DOLE: More OFWs coming home for good
A new trend of reverse migration is being seen by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) with more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) expected to return to the country to work and stay for good.
A new trend of reverse migration is being seen by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) with more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) expected to return to the country to work and stay for good.
Due to the economic crisis in Italy and other European countries, some overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there are now asking about opportunities here for a possible return, according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.
The Philippines has requested the Bahamas to allow Filipinos to retain their jobs as the independent British commonwealth starts implementing a new labor policy seeking to cut unemployment rates on the islands by replacing foreign workers with locals.
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration head Hans Leo Cacdac has warned against scammers luring local nurses to nonexistent jobs in Singapore.
The Persian Gulf state of Oman is in need of 3,288 doctors and nurses, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Friday.
TAIPEI—The number of foreign maids employed in Taiwan has more than doubled since 2000 as the island’s population ages rapidly, a labor affairs official said Sunday. Maids and nannies, mainly from Southeast Asia, working on Taiwan hit more than 200,800 in September, compared with 106,331 registered in December 2000, according to statistics compiled by [...]
Philippine officials in Beirut urged job seekers to heed the ban on the deployment of workers to Lebanon.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration advised would-be overseas Filipino workers to reject or at least be careful about job offers that require them to leave for abroad through the country’s “southern backdoor.”
Manila, Philippines—Two Filipino maids employed by a nephew of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fled the house of their employer and have been evacuated by the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday. Philippine Ambassador to Tripoli Alejandrino Vicente said the two maids, Diana Jill Rivera and Mary Ann [...]
Transportation and Communications (DoTC) Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas instructed Philippine Airlines (PAL) to prepare contingency measures in case its employees go on strike, a report on 990AM said Tuesday.
Majority of 17,000 Filipinos in Syria are working and living there illegally, making them more difficult to extricate from strife-torn areas, according to a migrant workers advocacy group.
MANILA, Philippines – Over a hundred distressed Filipino workers from the Middle East have arrived since late Sunday afternoon at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport as part of the government’s repatriation program. The 134 workers, assisted by the Department of Foreign Affairs, were brought back home from Lebanon and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, beginning Sunday [...]
