(Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives and the Senate have approved in the bicameral conference committee meeting an amendment to the National Internal Revenue Code exempting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who derive their income...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Facebook) The Kuwaiti court's verdict in the brutal murder of Jullebee Ranara shows that crimes against overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) won't go unpunished. House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs Chairman Kabayan...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) A ranking congressman is seeking to revise the "outdated" Magna Carta of Public Health Workers, also known as Republic Act (RA) No. 7305. By filing House Bill (HB) No.9127, Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said that securing the retirement benefits of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will help uplift their standard of living and ensure their future. Thus, the CHR gave its full support to House Bill (HB) No. 00176 or the "Overseas Filipino Workers Retirement System...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) A solon who works closely with overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is pursuing the passage of the proposed Magna Carta of Filipino Migrant Workers. Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo, chairman of...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo believes that President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will champion the cause of overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 24. Salo, chairman of the House...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (BBM Media Bureau) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo gave a near perfect score to President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. for the latter's performance in his first year in Malacañang. "Specifically, I am giving the President a 9.7 in a scale of 1 to 10,"...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Facebook) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo says the Department of Health (DOH) must prioritize hiring nursing licensure examination passers over non-passers amid plans to tap the latter due to the sheer shortage of personnel in government hospitals. In a recent...
Kabayan Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo says bloggers and vloggers should again be allowed to cover this year's State of the Nation Address (SONA), but only after hurdling some criteria. "Traditional media create a more formal means of communicating with the...
OFWs (MANILA BULLETIN) The promise of one million jobs from Saudi Arabia presents "a ray of hope" for Filipinos. Thus, said Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo as he hailed Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople for securing the mammoth number of jobs from the oil-rich...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Speaker’s office, Facebook) Ranking members of the House of Representatives hailed the third reading passage of the proposed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Hospital Act during plenary session Monday afternoon, May 29....
The chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs is confident that the Philippine delegation sent to Kuwait would be able to address the issue on the oil-rich nation's visa suspension on Filipino workers. “I am fully convinced that the delegation will diligently pursue the best...
