About 10,000 foreign workers on temporary visas are being allowed to stay in the country for another six months to help ease labour shortages while the border remains shut. Migrants on Working Holiday and Supplementary Seasonal Employment visas due to expire between 21 June and the end of December will have their visas automatically extended. Those on a Seasonal Employment
Continue readingTHE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has launched the updated version of OFW Handbook, which will serve as an important guide and reference for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on their work abroad, specially amid the global pandemic. “This OFW Handbook is a useful reference and guide for our OFWs on their overseas employment, particularly in providing them relevant information on
Continue readingA party-list lawmaker on Tuesday said returning Filipinos who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) here or abroad should be exempted from the mandatory quarantine when they arrive in the country. ACT-CIS Rep. Rowena Niña Taduran said the mandatory seven-day quarantine in a government-approved facility would only burden the arriving fully vaccinated Filipinos, who have a very
Continue readingMore job opportunities abroad will be opened to Filipinos following a bilateral labor agreement between the Philippines and Romania. In a statement on Monday, the Department of Labor and Employment said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Romanian Embassy Chargè d’Affaires Mihail Sion signed a memorandum of understanding last week for the deployment of more overseas Filipino workers to the
Continue readingMANILA – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said it plans to increase the cap on the overseas deployment of nurses to 10,000 from the current 5,000. In a virtual forum on Monday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the plan is carefully being studied as they want to ensure that the country has an adequate supply of nurses
Continue readingMANILA – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Monday warned the public, particularly aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), to be wary of unscrupulous individuals and entities actively recruiting workers to Lebanon. POEA chief Bernard Olalia also reminded the people that the deployment ban to the host country is still in effect. “May we remind the public that the recruitment and
Continue readingHinihiling ng pinakamalaking grupo ng medical technologist sa US na pag-aralan ng mga opisyal ng pamahalaan ang deployment cap para sa mga health care worker (HCW) sa Amerika, ulat ng labor department kahapon. Ayon kay Labor Attaché Angela Librado Trinidad ng Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) sa Washington D.C., naghain ng kahilingan ang Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) dahil
Continue readingHindi kinakailangang magpabakuna kontra Covid-19 ang mga overseas Filipino worker na tutungo sa Singapore, ulat ng labor department. Sa pahayag ni Saul De Vries, labor attaché sa Singapore, bagama’t mahigpit na ipinatutupad ng pamahalaang Singapore ang quarantine protocol dahil sa muling pagdami ng mga kaso ng Covid-19, ang bakuna ay hindi bahagi ng protocol para sa mga dumarating sa nasabing bansa. “Hindi
Continue readingOverseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Singapore are not required to get inoculated against COVID-19 before they are allowed into the city-state, the labor department reported on Sunday. Labor Attaché in Singapore Saul De Vries said that while the government of Singapore is implementing strict quarantine protocols due to the recurrence of COVID-19 cases, vaccine is not part of the arrival protocols in
Continue readingUpang mabawasan ang insidente ng mga kaso ng illegal recruitment at para na rin sa kapakanan ng mga overseas Filipino worker (OFW), tinanggal ng Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) sa Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ang mga tiwaling recruitment agency at pinalakas ang onsite verification ng mga employer. Ayon sa Labor Attaché ng POLO Riyadh na si Fidel Macauyag, sa loob ng isang buwan,
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