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.
Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) illegally have until February to avail themselves of an amnesty program that would legitimize their stay.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), where about 500,000 Filipinos live and work, is seeking Philippine support in Dubai’s bid to host the World Expo in 2020.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz urged on Thursday, overseas Filipino workers intending to apply for a United Arab Emirates (UAE) visa to file their applications early because its approval would be directed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abu Dhabi.
Overseas Filipinos dream of success. They want to earn a lot of money to care for their families and also to achieve self-actualization in the process.
The recruitment industry expects a huge decline in the number of Filipino domestic workers being deployed to the Middle East with the likely approval of a resolution that would make Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates off limits to household service workers. According to industry sources, the governing board of the Philippine Overseas Employment [...]
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates—Before she arrived in this mecca of migrant labor at age 48, Evelyn Naces, a Filipino nurse, had never owned a credit card. Soon she had 14 credit cards—and like thousands of other foreign workers here, a trip to debtors’ prison. The Philippine Embassy held a financial literacy program in June. [...]
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Monday reported that remittances sent home by overseas Filipinos reached $1.74 billion (roughly P75 billion) in June, the highest recorded for a month, rising by 7 percent over the $1.62 billion recorded in the same month last year. This brought total remittances in the first half of the [...]
The case against a United Arab Emirates naval officer accused of keeping an unpaid servant hit another major roadblock Thursday after the defense alleged that the government may have broken rules about sharing evidence.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island—A Filipino maid testified on Monday that she feared the United Arab Emirates naval officer who brought her to the United States where he withheld wages, took her passport and told her not to speak with outsiders while working for him in the state of Rhode Island. Elizabeth Cabitla Ballesteros was the first [...]
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island—A Filipino servant testified Monday (Tuesday in Manila) that she feared the United Arab Emirates naval officer who brought her to the United States where he withheld wages, took her passport and told her not to speak with outsiders while working for him in the state of Rhode Island. Elizabeth Cabitla Ballesteros was [...]
