The deployment ban to Iraq may have been lifted but four provinces in that strife-torn country remain “no-go zones” to Filipinos, the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) said on Saturday.
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.
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.
Ten maltreated overseas Filipino workers (OFWS) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have filed cases against their recruiters and principals following their repatriation to the Philippines.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has barred 11 foreign employers from hiring Filipino workers due to their having defaulted on contractual obligations and for grave misconduct and violation of Philippine laws on overseas employment.
The Department of Labor and Employment has lifted the deployment ban to the Gaza Strip and parts of Israel, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said over the weekend.
No new maids have been deployed to Saudi Arabia despite the lifting of the ban imposed by the Saudi government last year.
THE LAST conciliation hearing had been set for Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). Bantay OCW’s correspondent Marge Albania was there, together with 11 complainants against the Silver Horizon recruitment agency, whose representatives did not arrive until 12 noon.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has filed recruitment violation cases against 19 manning agencies found conducting illegal recruitment activities at the Luneta Seafarer’s Center in Ermita, Manila.
“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.
