Employment – International

TAIPEI: Taiwan has cut the number of foreign workers and maids working on the island by 24,000 since November, as a result of the global economic slowdown, it was reported on Sunday.

TAIPEI—Taiwan has cut the number of foreign workers and maids working on the island by 24,000 since November, as a result of the global economic slowdown, it was reported Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo announced yesterday that around 5,000 new jobs would be made available to Filipinos in the island resort of Sentosa in Singapore.

President Arroyo said some 5,000 new jobs will be available for Filipinos in Singapore with the expansion of the Resort World at Sentosa Island.

President Gloria Arroyo unveiled Thursday an ambitious P38-billion road project of the Metro Manila Tollways Corp. that would boost the government’s infrastructure development program and create more than 100,000 jobs during the five-year construction period.

HONG KONG — Job openings for executives in Asia have decreased, particularly in Japan, and are at their lowest level in Ho ng Kong since the Asian financial crisis as employers see little prospect of a quick rebound in business, a survey showed on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has approved a recommendation to lift the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Jordan and Lebanon but left it up to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to decide when to put it into effect, officials said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino teachers are needed for high-paying jobs in public elementary and primary schools in the United States.

Palace allows OFWs into Lebanon, Jordan   Despite the global crisis, more than 100,000 jobs in Qatar are available for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Labor department announced Wednesday after attending a meeting with Qatari labor officials last week.

BRUSSELS—Unemployment in the 16 countries using the euro rose in February to 8.5 percent to hit the highest level in close to three years, according to official EU data on Wednesday.

Not all Filipino workers who lost their jobs as a result of the global financial crisis are considered “permanently displaced,” according to an official of the Department of Labor and Employment on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly 90 million jobs are needed to absorb the new entrants in the labor market and cut short the ongoing global financial and job crisis, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported yesterday.

MANILA (Reuters) – Like millions of Filipinos, Alma Ang left her homeland to work abroad for a salary far higher than she could have ever earned at home.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reported yesterday that more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are getting jobs abroad rather than being retrenched even with the prevailing global economic crisis.

MANILA, Philippines – Taiwan has added the Philippines to its list of countries eligible for visa exemption.

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of jobs await Filipino workers in South Korea and Canada, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON: The global economy will shrink for the first time in 60 years in 2009, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday as EU leaders balked at growing US pressure to spend more to ease the crisis.

BEIJING: The world economy is likely to shrink in 2009 despite growth in Asian powerhouses China and India, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Angel Gurria said Friday, warning of a first global contraction in 60 years.

MANILA, Philippines – Families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are saving more of their family income as consumers brace against the full impact of the economic slowdown.

As job opportunities dry up in the US and the rest of the western world due to the brutal financial crisis, some Filipino executives, who left early on for greener pastures, are returning home in search of work.

MANILA, Philippines – Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) went down slightly by 0.1 percent to $1.260 billion in January from $1.264 billion a year ago as Filipino workers abroad began to feel the pinch of the global economic crunch, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP)- Malaysia has slashed its work permit approvals for foreign workers by almost 70 per cent so far this year, faced with the twin threat of layoffs and recession, according to a report Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) officials said a double-digit growth in remittances from overseas Filipinos is still possible in the first two months of the year, especially if the robust growth in labor export could be sustained for the rest of the year.

MANILA, Philippines—Filipino migrant groups in New Zealand have launched online petitions calling on the Wellington government to review a new ruling that automatically denies registration to Filipino nurses who obtained their degrees in the Philippines in less than four years.

MANILA, Philippines – Six of the largest military hospitals in Saudi Arabia are in need of more than 4,000 healthcare professionals, technicians and medical personnel, making it the biggest market for overseas Filipino workers, a recruitment leader said yesterday.

WHILE some companies in South Korea are replacing Filipinos with local workers to cut labor cost, this is the exception rather than the rule, South Korean Ambassador Choi Joong Kyung said yesterday.

TAIPEI: Amid a record-high unemployment rate, Taiwan is resisting pressures to shut out new foreign workers from the island—and laying off more of them—a government official told The Manila Times.

MANILA, Philippines – Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Taiwan may heave a sigh of relief as Taiwan’s economic stimulus package may reduce the risk of further OFW retrenchments, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said.

LEXINGTON, Kentucky – A recruiting trip to the Philippines turned into a success when officials from a public school system ventured there in late 2007 looking for teachers.

DUBAI(AP) — The world’s economic shadows caught up with Employee No. 861 at the lip of a construction site on Dubai’s desert outskirts.