The number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have returned home and since the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has breached the 800,000 mark, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Citing records from the Overseas Workers Welfare...
Employment opportunities await overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the pandemic in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the reopening of the economy in the Middle Eastern country, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported. (FILE PHOTO) Labor Attaché John Rio Bautista...
OFW Forum Though ex-President Ferdinand Marcos died way back in 1989, his intriguing mystique apparently remains alive and is now unwittingly aiding in significant ways the presidential bid in May 2022 of his only son, Ferdinand Junior. Bedeviled in two fronts by disqualification petitions and...
Pru Life UK and Prudential (Cambodia) Life Assurance PLC have teamed up in providing accessible protection to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) through a health and wealth management app in Cambodia. In a statement, Eng Teng Wong, Pru Life UK president and chief executive officer said on Friday, Nov....
In time for the Christmas season, the government has further cut the quarantine period for fully vaccinated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who will return to the Philippines including those arriving from countries under the “yellow list,” the Department of Tourism (DOT) confirmed Friday, Nov....
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) has urged overseas Filipinos not to patronize online cockfight betting games that are considered illegal offshore operations. In a statement, the country’s gaming regulator said on Thursday, Nov. 18, said that E-sabong websites that are...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Filipinos who live and work overseas often find themselves in a great quandary whenever the subject of public governance crops up in discussions with compatriots and with nationals of different countries. In Hong Kong, a small China city with a population of less than eight...
Only Filipino migrant workers who have existing employment contracts will be allowed to return to Iraq following the downgrade of the alert level there due to the improvements in the foreign land’s security situation. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "Hindi pa po pinapayagan ang mga new hires o...
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...
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...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has ordred the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to start processing the deployment of workers to South Korea following the announced lifting of restrictions on the entry of foreign workers there. The arrival...
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...
