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THE Covid-19 pandemic and the passage of Republic Act (RA) 11641, or the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Act, have hastened the introduction of changes to the Philippines’s five-decade-old formula for deploying overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
The “Filipinas”, our national women’s football team that competed at the FIFA Women’s Football World Cup in New Zealand and made up of players with a mix of Filipino and foreign heritage, may have scored just one goal that won just one game but that was enough to wake up the yearnings of a country for national pride in a global arena, and not just in the world of sports. It also speaks quite a lot of what makes us Filipinos in this age and time.
SEN. Ana Theresia “Risa” N. Hontiveros pressed concerned authorities in the Marcos administration to promptly mount a no nonsense crackdown against perpetrators of “misleading contracts” of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan.
BEXCS Logistics Solutions Inc., a 100-percent Filipino-owned company rooted in Bulacan, announced that it is set to expand its footprint not only in the Philippines but also in neighboring countries such as Hong Kong and Taiwan on the back of the growing e-commerce industry and the constant increase in number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
WOMEN workers continue to bear the brunt of the pressures caused by high inflation and workplace abuses, according to the coalition of the country’s largest labor groups and a new report from the International Labor Organization (ILO).
JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla has expressed his full support to the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) ongoing investigation into the alleged involvement of its personnel in human trafficking that has so far resulted in the relief of three of its employees.
It’s now the Department of Migrant Workers’ (DMW) call on whether it will ease or totally lift deployment restriction for some overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
THE answer to government’s problems on returning overseas Filipinos amid the economic and health crises may lie in a Chinese proverb: “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
In celebration of Migrant Workers’ Day, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will release tomorrow (June 7) at 8 am a video that pays tribute to the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who work at the front lines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Friday said overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Hong Kong are now safer as political tensions there have eased.
TO address the shortage of local nurses, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now eyeing to limit the number of their deployment abroad.
IN 2016 just under $27 billion fresh foreign-currency earnings were pumped into the local economy in the form of the remittances sent home by Filipino migrant workers to their families and loved ones.
Prophets of doom were quick to predict a continuing decline of remittances following the 3-percent drop in the money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) last October.
In the Philippines, the overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) month is celebrated in December. No wonder why. One look at the long lines at the immigration arrival counters at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) and one won’t miss the thousands of OFWs coming home to spend the Christmas holidays with their families. Christmas, after all, is a time for bonding and reunions, all the more special for our OFWs, as they get to spend precious little time with their loved ones.
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