President Marcos has inaugurated a one-stop shop for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) which aims to assist them in various services starting from their departure to their return to the country. Marcos led the opening of the Department of Migrant Workers' (DMW) Bagong Pilipinas One-Stop OFW AKSYON...
President Marcos has assured Filipinos that the government is striving to implement reforms and foster economic development to create domestic opportunities for Filipino workers and make overseas work an option rather than a necessity. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (RTVM screenshot)...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Majority Leader ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo has received a guarantee from a topnotch source that the 28,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Israel...
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) has revealed that they are now supporting 15 young children, who are mostly infants and toddlers, after their foreign fathers got deported for working at illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hubs in the country. PAOCC executive...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo is seeking the enactment of a measure that would provide rank and file government employees a 10 percent discount on medicines--a big boon given current high cost of basic goods. The measure is titled, “An act granting rank and file government employees...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Wednesday, November 20 commended President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. for maintaining strong diplomatic ties with Indonesia and eventually paving the way for the possible return of Filipino domestic worker Mary Jane Veloso back to the Philippines. This, after...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading House Bill (HB) No. 10914, or the “Free OFW Financial Education Act", in a bid to further its commitment to protect and "empower modern-day heroes"--the overseas...
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed on third and final reading the measure that seeks to slash by half the remittance fees of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Garnering 174 affirmative votes during plenary session Tuesday, Nov. 19 was House Bill (HB) No. 10959, or the...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) should adopt a proactive approach in dealing with the cancellation of alien employment permits (AEPs) issued to foreign workers in the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said. Gatchalian made the call...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left), President Donald Trump (Facebook) OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino is prodding the Marcos administration to give "comparable opportunities" to returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who may be...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has approved on second reading two measures that aim to strengthen financial safeguards for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Sponsored by Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre, both House Bill (HB) No....
Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada has filed a bill seeking to further strengthen workers' rights to form unions and protect them from any form of harassment. In filing Senate Bill No. 2735 or the proposed “Strengthening the Freedom of Association of Workers’ Act,”...
