Overseas Filipino Workers: The Modern-Day Heroes of the Philippines harvard.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from harvard.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
JORDAN and the Philippines will soon negotiate for a new bilateral labor agreement that would allow Filipino skilled workers to work in the Arabian state. Around 95 percent of the 43,000 OFWs in Jordan are domestic workers. Jordan’s Ministry of Labor Secretary General Farouq Al-Hadidi met with Philippine Ambassador to Amman…
An investigation by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism reveals the problem. Some domestic workers have received packages with snakes and intimidating messages to get them to pay their debt. Philippine employment agencies are blamed with loan-sharking, taking a disproportionate chuck of workers’ wages.
Filipino nurses quit low-pay jobs at home for careers in Saudi Arabia arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.