The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to form a technical working group (TWG) to expedite the release of unpaid wages and end of contract payments of Filipino migrant workers from Saudi Arabia who were forced to return home in 2016. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "The...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to pay the P4.6 billion unpaid salaries to around 9,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were forced to return to the Philippines last 2016. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III is...
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is taking steps to ban a retired military officer in Saudi Arabia from employing Filipino workers over reports of repeated physical abuse on househelp. Â Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now working with other countries to secure more jobs for the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the pandemic. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said a huge number of livelihoods is on the table and assured...
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...
Three more overseas Filipinos died of COVID-19 infections over the previous week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) In a weekly bulletin, the DFA recorded 41 new COVID-19 cases and 63 new recoveries among Filipinos abroad for the same period....
All active overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are renewing their passports will now have a dedicated consular site and Online Appointment System, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) The Consular Office in NCR Central at the 1st Floor Lingkod...
Senators are rallying for the passage of the bill that proposes to institutionalize a Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers. Senator Joel Villanueva (Senate PRIB) Senator Joel Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, said the measure serves as a "lifeboat of rights and privileges" for the...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has reported a total of 946 new confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and 35 new deaths in connection with the dreaded disease among overseas Filipinos during the past week. Department of Foreign Affairs Amid the increasing number of new COVID-19...
A migration consultant said that most of the 80 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kabul have left Afghanistan and are now safe in different countries waiting for repatriation by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Scene at the Kabul airport on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is expected to bring home more than 7,000 stranded overseas Filipinos this month through a combination of chartered and Bayanihan flights. Photos of stranded Filipinos preparing to board a repatriation flight from Dubai last week. (DFA) This is despite the...
An Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) personnel assists one of the 138 repatriated Overseas Filipino Worker who arrived in Davao City direct from Dhaka, Bangladesh last July 15. City Mayor Sara Duterte said three OFWs from the Dhaka flight tested positive for Covid-19. (Keith Bacongco)...
