The Philippine government will consider looking for alternative markets for overseas Filipino workers should Taiwan government make good its threat to freeze the hiring of new applicants to protest the death of a Taiwanese fisherman Thursday in waters off Batanes.
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday sent its top official on migrant workers affairs to meet with Saudi Arabia officials in a bid to expedite repatriation of more than 1,000 undocumented Filipinos still camped outside the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday allayed fears that Filipino workers would no longer be welcome in Singapore after the city-state imposed limits on foreign workers.
Seeing no imminent outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Saturday postponed a trip to Seoul as foreign diplomats in Pyongyang huddled to discuss a North Korean evacuation advisory that had sparked fears the isolated state was preparing to launch attacks on the South and the United States.
Re-electionist Senator Alan Peter Cayetano cited the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s quick processing of documents of migrant workers but said the fees it collected from the country’s so-called modern-day heroes should be reduced if not done away with altogether.
Filipino workers in Taiwan stand to benefit from a new minimum wage increase approved by the island’s highest administrative organ this month, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Friday.
Some 30 Filipinos were arrested on still unclear charges in Jeddah this week during a crackdown on illegal workers and employers that the government of Saudi Arabia started on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.
The Filipino community in this city will have to wait until next month to see if their middle school will be the first U.S. school named after two Filipino American heroes–labor leaders who were part of the historic strike that changed labor laws.
The German Labor and Social Affairs Minister, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen, came to the Philippines Monday to witness the signing of an agreement allowing Filipino health care professionals to work in Germany.
Germany is opening its doors to Filipino nurses and Manila and Berlin are set to sign an agreement paving the way for the deployment of Philippine health workers with guarantees of professional training and a healthy work environment.
The 238,000 overseas Filipino workers who were earlier removed from the official voters’ list by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be able to cast their ballots on May 13 after all.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Tuesday clarified that the deportation of almost 300 Filipinos from Sabah was not in any way connected to the conflict there between the Malaysian authorities and followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III.
