Are you a Filipino worker abroad who has a Professional Regulations Commission license and wishes to renew your PRC license while you are overseas?
OFWs...
Graduation day is more than a ceremony that features medals, speeches, and photo opportunities.
It's a celebration of years of effort and dreams fulfilled....
ROTC in the Philippines stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps, a program that provides military training to high school and college students.
The program aims...
As online fraud and identity theft has proliferated and many victims have complained of losing money or personal information sold to unscrupulous persons, the SSS card has also upgraded its Unified Multipurpose Identification or UMID card in its effort to tighten defense against fraudsters.
The third-generation SSS identification card now features contact-less smartchip technology that enables storage of an SSS...
If you ask Filipinos abroad, there are plenty of reasons why they chose to leave the Philippines -- at least temporarily.
Families Are Already Abroad
With...
Long service computation is a topic that interests primarily domestic workers who have served their employers for no less than five years.
As of October 1, 2023, newly hired foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong are entitled to a minimum allowable wage of HK$4,870 per month. But if the working relationship between the helper and her employers deteriorates under incompetence,...
For many Filipinos working or living abroad, the dream of coming home is a sweet one: reuniting with family, enjoying home-cooked meals, and catching up on lost time and rekindle past memories.
But for Overseas Filipino Workers, that...
Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) is a document that overseas Filipino workers need to present to the Immigration Department upon leaving the Philippines for work...
Domestic workers are, quite possibly, among the most underrated, overworked, and underpaid people in the labor force.
Due to the nature of their jobs,...
Many overseas Filipino workers have lost their jobs, had their incomes slashed, or been afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Yet, even as they become...
Pardon the redundancy: over-extending. An OFW career planned for a few years gets extended sometimes beyond control.
It's intentional because that's what is happening to...