Archive for the ‘Overseas Employment’ Category

Philippine Star
President Arroyo described yesterday layoffs among overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as “only a trickle” as she unveiled a package of programs to assist displaced workers.
Speaking at Malacañang before some 100 Filipinos who recently lost their jobs in Taiwan, the President stressed that the government is addressing its concerns for OFWs, particularly those who lost [...]

Ma. Elisa P. Osorio
Philippine Star
Taiwan still has strong demand for Filipino workers despite the recent layoff of 1,263 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the government said.
“There still are employment opportunities. We are working closely with the Taiwan authorities to ensure that these opportunities remain open and are hopefully expanded, so that we can at least mitigate [...]

Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Saying 2009 could be a “perilous” year, Senator Edgardo Angara said on Wednesday that close to 60,000 Filipinos could lose their jobs abroad, mostly from the United States, due to the global recession.
“If not handled correctly, the financial crisis we see today will become tomorrow’s human crisis,” Angara said in his [...]

Delon Porcalla
Philippine Star
The government was urged to file a complaint and demand an apology from the British government-owned British Broadcasting Corp. for racist remarks and negative portrayal of Filipinas abroad, specifically Filipina domestic helpers.
Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros urged the Department of Foreign Affairs to file a complaint before the British government and demand an apology [...]

Mayen Jaymalin
Philippine Star
More and more foreign employers are coming to the country to recruit Filipino workers despite the prevailing economic crisis.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) yesterday reported that a group of Australian employers is arriving in Manila to discuss hiring of additional Filipino workers.
“We are meeting soon with employers from Australia who have expressed [...]

Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — At least 781 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been laid off in Taiwan and returned to the country since September after their employers started declaring bankruptcy or retrenching workers as the global financial crisis hit the island-nation, a non-government organization (NGO) said.
Eden See, who assists OFWs in Taiwan’s multinational work [...]

Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Even as the global recession is hitting South Korea’s export-dependent factories, the Philippines still hopes to fill 10,000 jobs left unfilled from last year’s employment permit system (EPS), administrator Jennifer Manalili of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration said Wednesday.
The memorandum of agreement that allows EPS — the government-to-government system by which [...]

Mayen Jaymalin
Philippine Star
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported that over 40,000 Filipino seamen could be displaced due to the prevailing global economic crisis.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque warned the people that the economic crisis is expected to cause a tourism slump that might adversely affect the employment of Filipino seafarers on board international cruise [...]

Manila Standard
SINGAPORE—Southeast Asia’s economies will suffer if a growing shortage of managers and skilled professionals is not addressed, the International Labor Organization warned Tuesday.
The shortages were no longer limited to multinational companies but were affecting an increasing number of local firms wanting to expand globally, the group said in a report, “Labor and Social Trends [...]

by Veronica Uy
from INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Recruiters see the deployment of new overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) dropping by 10 to 15 percent — between 50-70,000 — over the next six months as the global financial crisis forces companies to downsize operations.
However, Lito Soriano of LBS e-recruitment agency and the Federated Associations of Manpower Exporters Inc., [...]