The Filipina overseas worker who was raped by her employers in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now two months pregnant. (Photo by Charles Deluvio/ Unsplash) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III shared this sad news Wednesday, July 7 during a virtual press...
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have been fully inoculated abroad from the coronavius disease (COVID-19) should have their vaccination cards validated by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) before coming back to the Philippines. (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) Thus, said Department of...
The Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been directed to go after the owner of a foreign recruitment firm who allegedly raped a Filipina overseas worker, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Tuesday, July 6. (File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting) In...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Art Tugade is serious about his "job offer" to displaced public utility vehicle (PUV) workers and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo from DOTr Facebook page) This, as Tugade reiterated his call to individuals from...
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...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. ordered an “all out” assistance for a special needs kid who was stranded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) along with his parents because of the Philippines’ travel ban on passengers coming from the Middle East country. Locsin asked Foreign Affairs...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has caught another two underaged overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) bound for Saudi Arabia at the Clark International Aiport in Pampanga. (Photo from Bureau of Immigration Facebook page) The interception of the duo came after three other minor OFWs were barred by Clark...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Clamor from overseas workers is growing for the establishment of a dedicated Department of OFW) which will to attend to the needs of improving the working conditions OFWs in view of persistent problems, notably physical abuses that OFWs suffer in different parts of the...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) extended assistance to the family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) so they could bring home the remains of their loved one who died of cardiac arrest early this month. Philippine Red Cross helps bring home the remains of an OFW who died in Dubai early this month....
Here's proof that some countries simply can't afford to not have overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). (Photo Silas Baisch / Unsplash) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III is meeting with his counterpart from the Sultanate of Oman Friday night June 18 to find a...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Assistant Secretary Dominique Rubia-Tutay gave some advice to jobless Filipinos on Wednesday, June 9 amid the increase in unemployment rate in the country. (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) "Ang nakakalungkot po, may mga nakikita po ako at nakakasalamuha na...
The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has confirmed that an overseas Filipino worker was found dead in a hotel in Haradh, an industrial city located in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia (PE Riyadh website) In a statement posted on its website Tuesday night, the Embassy...
