THREE licensed recruitment agencies based in Metro Manila have been suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) in line with the reinforced campaign against illegal recruitment.
The Philippine passport fee is way below what other countries in Asia and many others outside the region are charging, according to a survey by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
All manning agencies occupying booths at Rizal Park in Manila have been ordered to stop all their recruitment activities or face sanctions, a government body said.
Three of the seven overseas Filipino workers who sought help for allegedly being maltreated in Saudi Arabia arrived Monday in their home city of Bacolod.
New measures are being prepared to boost the protection of household service workers (HSWs) who are working or are about to work abroad.
Benjie Yango was pleased when he was hired as an English teacher in Harbin in April 2007. The job enabled him to join his wife Fely, a fellow English teacher, in the city near the Chinese-Russian border. But three years later, it is their family that seems to have been taught the biggest lesson about [...]
Overseas Filipino workers would have to wait a while before government can generate enough decent jobs for them to come home, the country’s new labor chief said over the weekend.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration Region 2 (POEA 2) has issued another warning to applicants for overseas jobs especially in Singapore saying they should follow the legal processes of getting an overseas job to avoid being fooled by unscrupulous recruiters.
Fely Yango and her husband are flying back to Manila from northern China on Thursday, a trip they also took six months ago. But this time Benjie is not on the seat next to Fely. He is in the aircraft’s cargo hold, sealed inside three layers of wooden casings.
The electronic passport or “e-passport” facilitates faster clearance at airports and borders for Filipino travelers and overseas workers, said Director Sarah Salcedo of the Consular Regional Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs here in Iloilo.
