Saudi Arabia is hiring Muslim nurses — POEA
By Tina G. Santos
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in need of Muslim nurses, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in need of Muslim nurses, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration head Hans Leo Cacdac has warned against scammers luring local nurses to nonexistent jobs in Singapore.
Bad news for Filipinos who want to work in Korea. South Korea has reduced the number of Filipinos who may be allowed to work in the country because of the rising number of illegally staying Filipino workers there, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Hans Leo Cacdac said.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration recently padlocked the offices of MYM International Manpower Agency for recruiting overseas Filipino workers without a license and canceled the license of Philquest International Management and Service Contractor for charging excessive placement fees and other recruitment violations.
No new maids have been deployed to Saudi Arabia despite the lifting of the ban imposed by the Saudi government last year.
Overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong, Brunei and Cambodia who need to shuttle between these countries and the Philippines can now avail themselves of the multiple travel exit clearance (MTEC), according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
“Napaka-maabilidad. Or, very resourceful, is how some old-timers at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and the Overseas Workers Employment Administration (OWWA) describe many overseas Filipino workers, or OFWs who have managed to find employment in at least 201 countries and trust territories worldwide despite the absence of formal labor agreements with the Philippines.
There may be far fewer Filipinos working as domestics around the world in five years. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) head Hans Leo Cacdac said the government was seriously considering a “five-year phaseout program” of domestic workers to more than 180 countries worldwide.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has suspended a manning agency that allegedly defrauded several seafarers deployed as fishermen to Taiwan.
The government should strengthen protection for overseas Filipino workers following its decision to add 32 more countries in its list of territories that meet Philippine standards on the protection of its Filipino workers, Senator Loren Legarda said Wednesday.
Some 250,000 overseas Filipino workers and their beneficiaries are unable to enjoy the benefits of membership in the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. because of a three-month encoding backlog at the agency, a recruiter and migration expert claimed Thursday.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration on Saturday warned aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to avoid recruiters who require them to leave for abroad through the country’s “southern backdoor.”
