Despite bid to create Dept. of Overseas Filipinos, keeping Pinoys domestically productive remains gov't goal — Nograles – Manila Bulletin

Published February 15, 2021, 6:02 PM
Despite the Duterte administration’s push for the creation of the Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL),  Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said on Monday that the government’s goal is for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to return home and remain in the Philippines.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
“The policy of government still maintains to be, that while we are protecting our Filipinos overseas, ultimately, what we want to them to do is be productive domestically,” Nograles said at the resumption of the Senate labor committee’s hearing on the bills proposing the DOFIL on February 15.

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