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Tonyo Cruz The past few years have been a challenge to Filipino farmers. We’ve seen and heard reports of produce being discarded, and farmers going bankrupt due to rice tariffication and illegal imports. In many parts of the country, death squads have orphaned farming families or split t
A flurry of memos, a hastily signed IRR, and an order for the POEA administrator to turn over all documents to the new secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the week isn’t over yet. The overseas employment sector is in a state of shock. It seems that Labor Secretary…
IS there a Department of Migrant Workers (DMW)? Yes, there is, but not quite yet. Unlike other departments created by law, the Department of Migrant Workers or DMW needs to meet three conditions before it is deemed fully operational, and thus, constituted by law. The three conditionalities are: 1. An…
OMJ hosts (from left) Bea Binene, Arnell Ignacio, and Tuesday Niu The pandemic is not yet over but with the decreasing number of COVID-19 cases all around the world, Taiwan has reopened its borders to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). This is good news to the OFWs who need to return to their