The government expects continuing demand for Filipino workers abroad as a result of hiring agreements forged between the Philippines and other countries that hire foreign labor.
Among these countries that committed to hire more Filipino professionals and skilled workers include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, and Japan, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.
Recently, the Labor department reported that the government entered into a bilateral agreement with South Korea on the employment of Filipino overseas workers during President Gloria Arroyo’s visit there.
The memorandum of understanding signed between the Labor department and its South Korean counterpart in May was credited for the hiring 5,000 Filipino workers in the South Korean manufacturing industry and in other sectors within the next 10 months.
The Labor department added that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Tripoli has started talks with the Libyan Health Ministry for the recruitment of about 4,000 Filipino medical workers in Libya.
Plus, the Labor department said despite the relatively weak global economic environment, the government’s intensified efforts, such as employment facilitation programs, to assist retrenched overseas workers have contributed to the deceleration in the rise in number of displaced OFWs.
OFW remittances
With these positive data on labor demand, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said that “the stream of remittances from overseas Filipino continue to show signs of strength despite lingering global fragilities, providing some cautious optimism regarding steady remittance levels for 2009.”
OFW remittances helped buoy up the economy amid the global economic slump.
Remittances from overseas Filipinos grew year-on-year by 3.7 percent in May 2009 to reach a record high of $1.48 billion.
The second-highest level of remittances, at $1.47 billion, was registered in March 2009.
Cumulative remittances for the first five months of the year totaled $6.98 billion, representing a 2.8-percent increment from the level recorded in the same period last year. Remittances from both sea-based and land-based workers posted gains at 4.6 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively. –Angelo S. Samonte, Reporter, Manila Times
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Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
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Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
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Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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