Employment – International

TWENTY-TWO of Qatar’s largest companies will be hiring Filipinos starting next month to fill up 37,000 positions in the energy, transport and construction sectors, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said yesterday.

President Arroyo vowed to secure more jobs for skilled Filipino workers in the Middle East during her three-day visit to Qatar that started yesterday.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ruled out anew yesterday the possibility of massive displacement of Filipino workers abroad despite the prevailing global economic crisis.

About 30,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) employed in South Korea face possible displacement and may soon return home.

While over a thousand Filipino workers in Taiwan have lost their jobs as the country’s export sector was hit badly by the international financial crisis, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said that Taiwan continues employing Filipinos in industries not as affected.

by Mayen Jaymalin from The Philippine Star The country’s largest labor group yesterday rejected a proposed measure restricting the deployment of Filipino doctors and other medical workers abroad.

More Filipino workers left the country last year to work abroad despite the continuing depreciation of the dollar.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) yesterday maintained that the government has no intention of taking over the country’s booming recruitment industry.

Italian ship owners need more than 20,000 seafarers and they want Filipinos for the job.

BAGUIO CITY—Migrant workers and members of the Gabriela party-list group picketed the office of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration here on Thursday to demand that the government finally allow 18-year-old women to seek jobs abroad.

At least 70 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are now out of the war zone in Beirut, Lebanon and safely in Cyprus, but consular officials in Cyprus are hard- pressed to help them for lack of funds.