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.
Only seven of the eight overseas Filipino worker fatalities in last week’s hostage taking at a remote Algerian gas plant are entitled to death and burial benefits from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, the OWWA said on Wednesday.
Local recruitment agencies have decided to temporarily stop the deployment of Filipino workers to Algeria following the bloody conclusion of the four-day hostage crisis that reportedly left 81 people, including six Filipinos, dead.
Vice President Jejomar Binay has renewed his appeal to Filipinos to help raise P44 million and save the life of Joselito Zapanta, an overseas worker facing execution in Saudi Arabia for the killing of his landlord.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is still verifying whether Filipinos were among foreign nationals abducted by militants at a natural gas field in Algeria.
Undocumented Filipino workers in Italy now have the opportunity to legalize their stay in the said country and shed their fear of deportation, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
Sixteen overseas Filipino workers who escaped the ongoing civil war in Syria have been repatriated, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Wednesday at least 12 of more than a hundred Filipinos in conflict-stricken Gaza strip want to evacuate as the international community intercedes to halt reciprocal firing between Hamas and Israel.
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said Saudi Arabian authorities will be conducting DNA tests to identify the remains of the overseas Filipino worker said to have been killed in a fuel truck explosion in Riyadh last Nov 1.
As the Philippines continues to send its citizens for jobs abroad, the plight and protection of migrant workers will figure prominently in President Benigno Aquino’s talks with European leaders during the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit here, according to Ambassador Lumen Isleta.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration on Friday assured that it will work to speed up the process of repatriating the remains of Florentino Santiago, the 44-year-old Filipino worker, who was among the 23 people killed in a fuel truck explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
