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DUBAI: The Philippine government has temporarily halted the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Saudi Arabia, in what the labor secretary said was “effective immediately and until further notice.”
“The department received reports that departing OFWs are being required by their employers/foreign recruitment agencies to shoulder the costs of the health and safety protocol for COVID-19 and insurance coverage premium upon their entry in the Kingdom,” labor chief Silvestre Bello III said in his May 27 memorandum for the government’s main overseas labor deployment office.
The labor department will resume deployment of OFWs after the matter has been clarified, Bello added in his memorandum.
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May 28, 2021 | 12:02 am
THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has once again extended the deadline for recruitment and manning agencies to submit monitoring reports on their overseas-deployed workers.
In POEA Advisory No. 62, the agency said the new deadline is now June 20. The advisory applies to Philippine Recruitment Agencies (PRAs) and Licensed Manning Agencies (LMAs), which must report to the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Welfare Monitoring System (OWMS).
“In view of the continuous requests received from the PRAs, LMAs, and industry organizations and associations, the deadline to create and/or update the welfare records in the OWMS of all OFWs onsite (workers) and seafarers onboard is hereby further extended until 20 June 2021,” according to the advisory.
Published May 19, 2021, 3:30 PM
Some 400 Filipino caregivers will be deployed to Israel before the end of the month despite the ongoing conflict there.
POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia answers questions from the media during the May 19, 2021 virtual press briefing. (Screengrab from Facebook live)
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Bernard Olalia confirmed this to reporters Wednesday, May 19 during a virtual press briefing organized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
“Home-based po ito (These are homebased caregivers) under the bilateral agreement between the two countries. Matatapos na po yung proseso para sa ultimate departure po nila para sa bansang Israel (The process of their ultimate departure for Israel will soon be finished),” Olalia said.