Employment – International

There were emphatic and asser-tive, albeit convivial, discussions at the regional technical training on skills assessment of migrant workers held in Bangkok last week under the auspices of the International Labor Organization and sponsored by the Korean Government. The comments and recommendations were summarized by resource person David Lythe from New Zealand, ILO skills and…

ZURICH, Switzerland – The close coordination between the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Swiss authorities proved fruitful as there is now a gradual phase-in of new recruits for Filipino au pairs or nannies in Switzerland.

MANILA, Philippines—In need of workers from plumbers to carpenters to engineers, the provincial government of Manitoba, Canada on Tuesday morning signed an agreement with the labor department to deploy overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the province.

MANILA, Philippines – As Germany expands its labor market, it will keep its doors open to highly qualified migrants but strictly enforce the law on low-skilled labor illegally crossing its borders, sounding off a fair warning to migrants, including Filipinos. “If you are highly qualified, Germany wants you, especially in the healthcare and technology sector.

And the work is ‘less toxic’ too MANILA, Philippines—Among the allied medical professions in the Philippines, their field is not as popular as nursing. But radiologic technicians like Arnold and Agnes Llegado have a secret they want to share: Compared to nursing, the rad tech’s job is “less toxic”—and the pay (in some countries) is…

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Labor officials must prioritize at least 6,000 Filipino workers forced out of Iraq in a program to hire 10,000 workers in Guam for the expansion there of US military facilities.

MANILA, Philippines – To provide more jobs for Filipino nurses, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is intensifying Japanese language training for those wishing to work in Japan.

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s leading supermarket chain has broken the country’s strict taboo on women working in public with a pilot program of women cashiers, a company official said.

As it continues to receive reports that Filipino applicants paid manpower agencies substantial amounts for placement or recruitment fees, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Philippine Embassy in Guam reminded Filipinos applying for a job in Guam that the United States has a “no recruitment fee” policy for foreign workers.

Thousands of construction jobs in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) could be available to prospective overseas Filipino workers should a US military hospital project there push through.

BANGKOK, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) – Tanya Athikom’s search for a permanent job in the information technology sector has so far resulted in a string of disappointments. The Bangkok resident has thus been forced to accept short-term contracts in local and multinational companies here in the Thai capital.

Filipino nurses and other workers may now have difficulty seeking employment in European countries, the Philippine Overseas Welfare Administration (POEA) said on Thursday.

BERLIN — Europe’s economic powerhouse Germany needs to lure qualified immigrant workers to address skills shortages, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Wednesday, wading into a fierce debate in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – Almost half of the country’s geologists have left government work for greener pastures abroad or in private companies here.

MANILA, Philippines—To the younger OFWs who still have the next 10 to 20 years to work abroad, my advice is for them to look for opportunities in Asia, where the most dynamic economies will be (in contrast with the stagnating industrialized countries of the West and Japan).

WASHINGTON — Private recruitment agencies manage much of the flow of the 200,000 Filipino workers who head annually to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is the third largest destination for Filipino migrants after the United States and Saudi Arabia.

HOUSTON—Good employees are hard to find. So more companies are figuring, why not rehire the former workers we like?

VANCOUVER, Canada—There are about half a million Filipino immigrants in Canada, most of them living in the big cities of Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, and Montreal.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said unemployment may have peaked in the OECD area in May 2010 (having reached 8.6%), but that nations in the region will have to create about 17 million news jobs to return employment levels back to where they were before the financial crisis.

DUE TO CHANGES IN PROGRAM MANILA, Philippines—There has been a 70- to 90-percent drop in the number of placements for foreign caregivers or nannies over the past three months following changes in Immigration Canada’s Foreign Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), it was learned Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Recruitment agencies threaten to stop deploying workers overseas as protest against the plan of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to remove the probationary period in the standard employment contract without consultation with foreign employers.

MANILA, Philippines – More and more Filipino nurses are now opting to work in the United Kingdom than in the United States, according to local recruiters.

MANILA, Philippines—A probing study on Philippine labor migration to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was recently released by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Washington DC, analyzing the movement of people worldwide.

MANILA, Philippines – Whether or not they would like to work abroad in the future, high school students may soon find themselves studying lessons on safe migration and overseas employment.

GENEVA — Market volatility and the European debt crisis are putting at risk efforts to cut unemployment which hit historic highs in 2009, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Tuesday. In a report on the eve of its annual conference, the ILO said there were growing concerns the sovereign debt crisis could hit growth prospects.

MANILA, Philippines—The International Labour Organization (ILO) head in the Philippines hopes that the next administration would focus on creating policies that will strengthen domestic employment in the country, so that overseas work will no longer be a necessity, but not an option.

PASIG CITY – Analysts claim the movement of workers from home countries in Asia already reached a level wherein their economies are now “structurally dependent” on migration.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino seafarers could be displaced by the debt crisis in Greece. Ernesto Herrera, Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) secretary-general, said the economic slump in Greece might adversely affect shipping activities in Greece and other European countries.

Experts are calling for an infusion of about 10,000 primary care physicians into medically underserved areas over the next several years, even as medical students’ interest in primary care has waned.

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