The Philipppine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has suspended anew the deployment of Filipino nurses and healthcare workers abroad as the 6,500 cap set for the year has been reached. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "Inabot na natin yung deployment cap. Nagkaroon tayo ng (We...
Malacañang said it will first evaluate if the country's hospitals are in need of more manpower before allowing Filipino healthcare workers to work in New York amid the state's search for more medical workers. 35014 Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after the state of New York...
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has noted an increasing trend in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) this year reaching to at least 70,000 land-based and sea-based workers per month. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said the...
The government of Brunei is again seeking an exemption from the Philippines' existing deployment cap on healthcare workers due to the current demand of medical frontliners there amid the pandemic, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) latest request to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) indicates that Filipino healthcare workers (HCWs) continue to leave the Philippines amid the raging coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Kevin...
Officials from the Philippines and Oman have signed an agreement that would effect the resumption of the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the western Asian state. (MANILA BULLETIN) In a Zoom meeting last Monday, July 19, Philippine labor officials headed by Department of Labor and...
An additional supply of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines were deployed in places that are considered as "areas of concern" amid the threat of the more transmissible Delta variant. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National...
The Philippines will waste no time in sending overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Israel following the lifitng of the temporary suspension of OFW deployment to that country. (Photo by Vitamina Poleznova/ Unsplash) In a statement Thursday, July 15, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary...
Filipino workers with deployment papers to Israel can now heave a sigh of relief. (Photo by Cole Keister/ Unsplash) This, after Department of Labor and Employment-Information and Publication Service (DOLE-IPS) Director Rolly Francia announced in a virtual press briefing Wednesday afternoon, July 14...
The Pasay City government has deployed a total of 207,542 vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) despite the suspension of vaccination for the first dose last week due to vaccine supply shortage. The city’s Public Information Office (PIO), headed by Jun Burgos, posted on the city...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion How much does it cost every year to address and resolve maltreatment of Filipino women, mostly employed as domestic helpers, in the Middle East? More likely than not, this perplexing question will be glossed over by labor officials in favor of the multi-billion US dollars...
Healthcare workers A nurses' group reiterated its appeal to the national government to totally lift the deployment ban on healthcare workers. "The very reason why some of our nurses are pushed to leave the country is because of the very low salary and the lack of appreciation that our government is...
