The US government has ordered another pullout of foreign workers, including Filipinos, whose countries have implemented a deployment ban in the war-torn country.

At least 11 Filipinos were among 210 people arrested for drug-related offenses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in the last three months.

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to award the prestigious Model OFW Family of the Year on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in one of the local convention centers here.

The Kuwaiti government announced it will be scrapping the sponsorship system for foreign workers in February next year, becoming the second Middle Eastern country to end what has been described as “modern slavery.”

A female overseas Filipino worker (OFW) jailed in Saudi Arabia was reunited with her family in the Philippines after she and her children were repatriated this month.

Senator Franklin Drilon on Tuesday said he wants to look into the situation of Filipino on-the-job trainees in Singapore who are allegedly being forced to work in hotels there for half of the minimum wage.

Noting the oversupply of nurses in the country, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday said the demand for the occupation has been steadily declining over the years.

At least 84 Filipina cleaners have been living in misery since being abandoned by their employer without salary, food, water and electricity at a home in the United Arab Emirates.

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is set to tap the Benguet General Hospital (BeGH) as its new medical institution partner for its Health Program for Overseas Filipino Workers (HEALTHPRO).

“We cannot do this alone. Everyone must help, especially the media, if we want illegal recruiters to stop we must expose their modus operandi,” thus stated Administrator Jennifer Jardine Manalili of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) in response to DOLE – Bicol’s call for a massive Anti-Illegal Recruitment (AIR), Anti-Human Trafficking, and Anti-Child Labor [...]