Overseas Filipino Workers
Philippines’ OFW remittances reach record high in 2021 despite Covid-19
Oversea Filipino Workers, or OFW, sent home a record high of remittances through banking channels of $31.4 billion last year despite the prolonged Covid-19...
Philippines wants to trade nurses against free Covid-19 vaccines
The number of Outbound Filipino nurses has been capped to 5,000 a year
The Philippine government has proposed...
Philippines prepares for 300,000 jobless overseas workers returning home
The Philippine government is bracing for the return of an expected 300,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who...
More than 70,000 Filipinos lost jobs abroad so far amid virus crisis
The Philippine government expects more than 70,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to have lost their job so...
Remittances to Philippines could fall by up to 30% amid virus crisis
Remittances from Overseas Philippine Workers, which amounted to $33.5 billion last year, or roughly ten per cent...
Overseas Filipino Workers’ lifelines hit by coronavirus pandemic
The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis could hit the Philippines drastically because the country relies heavily...
Philippines enforces total OFW deployment ban to Kuwait
The Philippine government has enforced a total ban on the
deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to Kuwait....
Philippines once again bans OFWs from going to Kuwait
Filipino maids waiting for repatriation from Kuwait
The Philippines will stop sending new overseas workers to Kuwait until...
Philippines could lose $1.5 billion in remittances from cash-strapped Gulf states
Around 80,000 to 100,000 jobs for Oversea Filipino Workers, or OFWs, among them 30,000 household service workers, could be lost due to the precarious...
Philippines to sign OFW pact with Russia
The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to sign a bilateral agreement with Russia on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers...
Philippines to lift OFW ban to Kuwait in steps
The Philippines is starting to lift the complete ban of deploying Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Kuwait after the two countries reached an agreement...
Filipino worker ban to Kuwait now permanent
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on April 29 that a ban on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect...
Philippines, Kuwait draft labour protection agreement, ban remains
The Philippines and Kuwait agreed on a draft migrant labour protection pact March 16, Manila’s labour secretary said, after talks set off by maid...
Duterte: OFW ban could be expanded to other countries
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on February 22 he would extend his ban on sending workers to Kuwait to include other countries if investigations...
OFW ban sours Kuwait-Philippines relations as hundreds flee their employers
Hundreds of Filipino domestic staff in Kuwait fled from their employers to the Philippines embassy after President Rodrigo Duterte offered them a free light...
Filipinos banned from working in Kuwait, over 2,000 desperate to go home
The Philippine government on February 12 signed an administrative order to completely ban the deployment of Oversea Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Kuwait, according to...
Philippines eyes new, cheaper cash remittance channel for OFWs
The Philippine government is looking for solutions to provide cheaper and more convenient remittance channels for its Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Particularly, technology developed...
Philippines stops sending OFWs to Kuwait after abuse, suicide cases
Relations between the Philippines and Kuwait soured after the government in Manila enacted a ban on sending Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to the wealthy,...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...