CEBU CITY – This city has deployed additional personnel tasked to monitor the entry of pork shipment in seaports here. Their deployment is part of the continuing efforts to prevent the entry of African Swine Fever (ASF) here, said Dr. Jessica Maribojoc, chief of the local Department of Veterinary...
House Ways and Means Chair Rep. Joey Salceda told incoming Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan Ople and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma to lift the deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). (Photo from Joey Salceda's Facebook)...
A labor official has dismissed the proposal of the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to lift the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in some parts of the Middle East. (Photo courtesy of Philippine Embassy in Beirut/DFA) Labor Attache Alejandro Padaen, of the...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Thursday, April 7, that the deployment ban of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has remained in effect. DOLE DOLE issued the statement after the circulation of a fake advisory purportedly issued by the Philippine...
Senatorial aspirant Jinggoy Estrada, who is running under the ticket of survey frontrunners presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos and vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio, believes the government must aggressively negotiate with countries that still owe Overseas Filipino...
While the ongoing COVID-19 crisis still affects the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the current demand for sea-based workers is almost up to the pre-pandemic levels, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said. (Photo from Unsplash) OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac...
The government's pandemic task force has approved the recommendation to increase the annual deployment ceiling of new-hire healthcare workers to 7,000, Malacañang announced. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the statement after the Philippine...
Tighter border restrictions in some countries due to potential threats of the Omicron variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will affect the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said Friday, Dec. 3. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN POEA...
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has imposed a total ban on the deployment of Filipino migrant workers to Ethiopia due to the current conflict there. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) POEA Administrator Bernard P. Olalia said the suspension came after the Department...
The Philippines has temporarily suspended the deployment of new household workers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a bid to prevent cases of physical abuse among Filipino migrant workers there. (Jansen Romero / File Photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual public briefing on Thursday, Dec. 2,...
The government will continue to deploy overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Israel despite the country's announcement that it would ban the entry of all foreign visitors amid the threats brought by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Philippine Overseas...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to inoculate on Wednesday, Nov. 10, another batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are about to be deployed abroad. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the government of Brunei has donated some 2,000 doses...
