OFWs-Reintegration

MANILA, Philippines – Most Filipino workers still prefer to go abroad rather than stay in the country and become entrepreneurs, the Overseas Workers Employment Administration (OWWA) reported yesterday.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday said that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are interested to start or expand an existing business enterprise may avail of loan assistance under the P2-billion reintegration program without collateral as long as the business they want to put up or expand remains viable and profitable.

GOVERNMENT officials vowed to help 350,000 skilled Filipino workers who will be displaced by “Saudization,” a program in Saudi Arabia designed to cut unemployment of the Middle East country’s subjects.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday renewed its call to all remaining Filipinos in strife-torn Yemen to leave as tension in the Middle East state continues to escalate.

MANILA, Philippines – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will offer low-cost loans to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis Baldoz said in a press statement.

State-owned Land Bank of the Philippines and Development Bank of the Philippines have committed P2 billion in loans to help returning migrant Filipino workers start their own businesses.

The Land Bank of the Philippines has earmarked at least P8.3 million in loan packages for returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who want to begin their own business in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – A survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed that more and more beneficiaries of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are turning to savings and investments as the central bank stepped up its advocacy on the productive use of remittances.

DOHA — A fresh round of investigations is being considered in the Senate on the use of hundreds of millions of Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) funds for the repat-riation of thousands of Filipi-nos from Libya a few months ago.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd in a statement urged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to avail themselves of the government’s newly launched P2-billion low-interest reintegration loan program.

At least 186 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including children who used to live under a bridge in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrived in Manila early yesterday morning after being repatriated by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).

New labour attache vows to decongest FWRC KUWAIT CITY, June 7: A total of 131 distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) were repatriated to the Philippines on two consecutive days as part of the series of mass repatriation of stranded OFWs in Kuwait. The first batch composed of 86 OFWs left on Monday evening while the…

The Philippine government yesterday Monday ordered the mandatory evacuation of all Filipinos residing in the strife-torn capital of Yemen and other affected areas due to the deteriorating peace and order situation there.

(NewDesignWorld Press Center) – The House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading a measure establishing a credit assistance program for overseas workers (OFWs).

A migrant workers group yesterday called on the government to prepare an early evacuation plan for some 50,000 Filipino workers in Kuwait, fearing that simmering political tensions there could escalate into a full-blown conflict.

MANILA, Philippines – The political turmoil in the Middle East and the nuclear crisis in Japan are likely to translate to high unemployment rate in the country with a high number of overseas Filipinos expected to return to the Philippines.

With hundreds of thousands of our overseas Filipino workers displaced by the contagion of unrest in the Middle East, North Africa and the triple whammy that hit Japan, the government is hard put at not only repatriating them but also looking for alternative destinations for their re-deployment.

THE crisis in the Middle East areas could worsen the country’s unemployment situation and the overall economy, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) warned on Tuesday.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Thursday said that it is granting P10,000 financial assistance to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) returning from war-torn areas in the Middle East and Libya.

THE government should help the 3,000 workers coming home from Libya find employment and other sources of income. There are concerns that the political fallout from the Taiwanese deportation row would also result in more jobless OFW returnees as Taiwan threatened to become more stringent with their hiring policies of Filipinos. But I am less…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday is now working on the mass repatriation of the third batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwait after successfully sending home 114 OFWs last month.