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Permanent Status Pushed for Temp Workers in British Columbia, Canada
A group of businessmen from British Columbia is proposing to allow temporary foreign workers to immediately land as immigrants in Canada. Fort St. John’s chamber of commerce and the owner… Read more
Test to Say if Pinoy Teachers Keep Baltimore Jobs
The jobs of hundreds of Filipino teachers in Baltimore public schools are hanging on the results of a “market test” that will show whether they’re still needed for the next… Read more
OFWs in Barcelona, Spain Oppose Impending Closure of PH Consulate
Overseas Filipino workers in Barcelona, Spain, have petitioned the Department of Foreign Affairs to reconsider its decision to shut down the Philippine consulate general there, saying the diplomatic post has… Read more
Ban on Deployment of Filipino Maids to Jordan Stays
“It is inhuman.” This was what Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said after meeting with a 23-year-old undocumented Filipina maid, who had allegedly been beaten for a year then finally fled… Read more
Saudi Ministry of Health to Hire More Filipino Nurses
The Ministry of Health is recruiting more Filipino medicos, a press statement of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, issued here Sunday, has said. “The Saudi Ministry of… Read more
OFWs Use Internet, Not Landlines, To Keep in Touch
The Internet is now the primary communication channel for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families. According to the TNS Digital Life 2012 study, which was presented to the media… Read more
Government OKs Private Guards on Ships to Protect Seamen
The Philippines has given Manila-flagged merchant vessels the go-ahead to employ private security on board to protect Filipino seafarers from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean,… Read more
Jordan Ink Pact on Lifting of Ban on Filipino Maids
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Sunday signed here an agreement with her Jordanian counterpart that would pave the way for the lifting of the deployment ban imposed in 2008 on… Read more
Remittances: How Filipinos Abroad Keep the Philippines’s Economy Alive
LET us imagine the Philippines without its overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and assume there are no temporary and permanent migrants and millions of Filipino families do not receive any remittance… Read more
More Than 100,000 Reacquired Pinoy Citizenship
More than 100,000 people have reacquired Filipino citizenship under the Dual Citizenship Law, the immigration commissioner said yesterday. In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said 116,059 individuals have… Read more
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