Saudi Arabia has started to ban vacationing OFWs from reentering the country. According to Migrante International, outgoing workers’ passports are being stamped with a “Final Exit” mark. Many countries including China have adopted a policy of prioritizing local citizens in hiring workers.
The necessary question, why are we so lax in allowing Chinese, Koreans, Africans and even Americans to work here, many of them without immigration permits? This situation calls for a policy review.
Take Fontana and other foreign owned casinos. Many foreigners are working there including menial jobs as waitresses or construction workers. At one time, 500 Chinese laborers were working at Fontana in Angeles City but the Bureau of Immigration backed off when an influential Congressman intervened.–Ernesto M. Maceda (The Philippine Star)
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
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.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
