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by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) with Mayen Jaymalin, Paolo Romero, 4 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. yesterday hit the increase in the contribution of premium payments of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).

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By BusinessMirror, 9 Jan 2020 The discovery of the mutilated body of Joanna Demafelis in a freezer in Kuwait, in February 2018, so outraged President Duterte, who called her death a “national shame” and ordered a ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait. The Kuwaiti government panicked, and sent high-level delegates to Manila…

The China Post/Asia News Network, 5 Nov 2019 TAIPEI — Migrant workers from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines staged separate protests in Taipei on Sunday to demand the abolishment of all placement agencies and the enforcement of a compulsory government-to-government hiring system.

by Christia Marie Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug 27, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The creation of a separate Department for Overseas Filipinos might send the wrong message, Sen. Joel Villanueva said on Tuesday.

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by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) – Jul 21, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it is still “irregular” for Filipinos to work as household service workers and tutors in mainland China.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) – Apr 28, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino workers continue to power Taiwan’s electronics and technology industry, a visiting expert from a Taiwan-based think tank said.

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by ABS-CBN News, Mar 4, 2019 Nag-aayos ng dokumento ang household worker na si Cecilia Siapno na papuntang United Arab Emirates.

by Consuelo Marquez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 2, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the bill that offers handbooks for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) containing their rights and benefits.

by Vito Barcelo and Maricel V. Cruz, Manila Standard, Feb 28, 2019 Labor groups slammed the Chinese ambassador Wednesday for warning Manila against deporting illegal Chinese workers, saying Beijing would do the same to Filipinos working in China.

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By Ferdinand Patinio/PNA, Dec 26, 2018 MANILA –The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has recently revealed that the government is putting up six more Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO) in several countries where there are Philippine embassies.

by Agence France-Presse, Oct 28, 2018 DOHA, Qatar — Long-awaited reform of Qatar’s controversial exit visa system, which requires foreign workers to obtain their bosses’ permission to leave the country, came into force on Sunday, the government said.

by Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News, Aug 27, 2018 MANILA – Filipino construction workers in New Zealand receive relatively low salaries and face uncertain working hours, inadequate living conditions and expensive of the immigration process, a research found.

By Teddy Locsin Jr., BusinessMirror, Aug 13, 2018 The Global Compact on Migration Conference in the Philippines, August 14 and 15, preparatory to its formal adoption in Morocco in December 2018.

By CNN Philippines Staff, May 12, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 11) — Philippine and Kuwaiti officials on Friday signed a labor deal that aims to protect the welfare of Filipino workers, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said, in what is an apparent sign of warming of ties after a diplomatic row between…

Manama, Apr.25 (BNA): The Undersecretary for International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, met at the Ministry’s General Court today, the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, Sarah Lou Y. Arriola, currently on visit to Bahrain.

by Rina Chandran, Reuters, Mar 30, 2018 PAMANTINGAN, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she had to do: move to the city of Koronadal, about an hour away by bus, and find work as a domestic helper to…

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By CNN Philippines Staff, Feb 16, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 15) — Refusing to see workers as human beings leads to abuse.

By Danilo Ibayan, THE MANILA TIMES, Dec 23, 2017 TEN years after the 2007 Cebu Asean Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers,there is now an Asean Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers after its signing by the association’s 10 leaders in November 2017…

by Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters, Dec 19, 2017 NEW YORK – An estimated 258 million people are international migrants, a figure that has surged by a half since the turn of the century, the United Nations said on Monday.

By The Nation, Dec 15, 2017 Asean agencies across sectors have joined forces to improve the protection of women migrant workers in crisis situations.

August 21, 2017, INQUIRER.net In New Zealand farms, Filipino migrant workers in “desperate situations” face widespread mistreatment. Abuse, exploitation, being underpaid, and being exposed to dangerous conditions are just some of the circumstances that Filipinos encounter while working in the dairy farm industry, according to a study titled “In search of decent work”.

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Aug 17, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The government of Alberta in Canada has stopped the hiring of Filipino engineers and other highly skilled foreign workers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) announced yesterday.