The alternative labor markets being eyed by the Philippine government for Filipino who may be affected by the brewing tension between Taiwan and the Philippines are not feasible, a recruitment industry expert said Saturday.
A self-imposed moratorium by a group of Philippine-based licensed recruiters might deprive some 35,000 Filipinos wanting to work as household service workers (HSWs) in Hong Kong.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency is warning Filipinos seeking employment abroad about e-mail scams offering jobs as nannies in the United States.
Scores of “gullible” Filipinos are being tricked into going to work in Syria each month despite an official ban on travel to the violence-wracked country, the Department of Labor (DoLE) said Tuesday.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has finally canceled the license of erring Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation for numerous recruitment violations.
Saudi Arabia is expected to lift within the month the suspension it imposed last year on the hiring of Filipino maids by the Middle East kingdom, a labor official said Tuesday.
The frequent offloading at the country’s airports of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) suspected of being undocumented recruits or trafficking victims is turning off foreign employers to the point that they have stopped hiring Filipinos and have turned to other countries for their labor needs, according to a recruitment consultant. Outbound legitimate OFWs have complained about [...]
An illegal recruiter was nabbed in an entrapment operation by the Quezon City Police District after a jobseeker got suspicious and found out that the contract being offered to her was allegedly fake.
Lorena Banggayan, Mary Rose Saberon and Rowena Villanueva, three hopeful overseas contract workers from Nueva Ecija, went to Taiwan as “caretakers” after applying with the OFW Recruitment Agency at a job fair held at their barangay last February 09, 2011. After borrowing more than P150,000 each for their recruitment fees, however, they all scurried home [...]
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Carlos Cao immediately placed Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation under preventive suspension, after it was reported in Inquirer Global Pinoy that the agency had renewed the recruitment firm’s licence despite numerous complaints against it. Until now we continue to receive complaints against Steadfast. Cao placed Javier Corporation under preventive suspension [...]
