BSP warned on raising OFW hopes - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos: "Taiwan’s special hiring program has only deployed less than a thousand for 2008 compared to the private sector which deployed more than 40,000 factory workers and caregivers.
“Those markets have dried up and only the Middle East countries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Libya where over two million Filipinos are concentrated are steadily increasing remittances flows,” Soriano said.
The recruitment executive, however, warned that the over 200,000 OFWs in Dubai, the second biggest source of remittances this year, were likely to send less next year because of the emirate’s debt crisis.
The BSP earlier said that in the first three quarters of the year, OFWs sent home through banks a total of $12.789 billion, up $516.62 million or 4.21 percent from the $12.273 billion in the same period in 2008"
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Brighter OFW prospects in Taiwan seen | Manila Bulletin
Brighter OFW prospects in Taiwan seen | Manila Bulletin: "TAIPEI – At least 40 percent of the 5,000 permanently displaced Filipino workers in Taiwan at the height of the global financial crisis last year are now back to work and prospects for deployment are getting better following a positive outlook for this export-oriented economy.
This was revealed by Philippine labor attaché Reydeluz D. Conferido of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan during a talk with visiting Filipino reporters over the weekend.
“Total deployment has reached 70,000 in all from 60,000 OFWs here last year,” Conferido said.
Of the 70,000 OFWs in Taiwan, 40,000 are engaged in the electronics manufacturing and 20,000 are in social services (caregivers, caretakers, nursing aids, domestic workers) and the others in the construction sector, agriculture and fishery."
This was revealed by Philippine labor attaché Reydeluz D. Conferido of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan during a talk with visiting Filipino reporters over the weekend.
“Total deployment has reached 70,000 in all from 60,000 OFWs here last year,” Conferido said.
Of the 70,000 OFWs in Taiwan, 40,000 are engaged in the electronics manufacturing and 20,000 are in social services (caregivers, caretakers, nursing aids, domestic workers) and the others in the construction sector, agriculture and fishery."
Saudi Arabia: Top OFW destination in 2009 | Manila Bulletin
Saudi Arabia: Top OFW destination in 2009 | Manila Bulletin: "As for Taiwan, Manalili said the 22.1 percent decrease in the number of OFW deployed there this year is a manifestation of the global economic crisis.
Early this year, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said Taiwan recorded the highest number of Filipino workers displaced by the global financial crisis.
Roque said at least 4,197 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were laid-off in Taiwan from October 2008 to February 2009."
Early this year, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said Taiwan recorded the highest number of Filipino workers displaced by the global financial crisis.
Roque said at least 4,197 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were laid-off in Taiwan from October 2008 to February 2009."
‘Misleading’ POEA report on OFWs hit | Manila Bulletin
‘Misleading’ POEA report on OFWs hit | Manila Bulletin: "The POEA earlier said the actual OFW deployment for 2009 reached 1.23 million, adding that the global financial crisis has made little impact on the deployment of workers abroad. The total number reportedly increased by 11.7 percent from 1.14 million in 2008.“In reality, seafarers are re-hires since their contracts average to six to eight months and return to their ships again in two to three months. So, therefore, a seaman/woman may be counted twice as a new hire as he/she may leave twice in a year. This may be the real reason why the sea-based sector shows an increase in the number deployed,’’ he explained.months"
Monday, January 4, 2010
Labor Migration in 2009: A Terrible Year to Be an OFW - Bulatlat
Labor Migration in 2009: A Terrible Year to Be an OFW - Bulatlat: "But cases of abuses, contract substitution, among others, have increased, so did the number of distressed OFWs, those in foreign prisons, and the number of dead bodies being repatriated . With 3,700 OFWs now leaving daily to work abroad, excluding undocumented Filipinos, cases of “criminal neglect” of distressed and abused OFWs by government officials and agencies supposedly tasked with protecting Filipinos abroad have also been increasing."
Monday, December 14, 2009
Business Insight Malaya | Business
Business Insight Malaya | Business: "Filipinos are no longer the housemaids of choice of Taiwanese. Carlo Aquino, who heads the assistance to nationals program of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), said from a high of 60,000 household service workers and caretakers, the number had dropped to 22,509 as of October this year....Aquino said the wide support system of Filipino housemaids from church and non-government organizations has empowered them to voice out complaints against employers. This turns off employers from hiring them."
Brighter OFW prospects in Taiwan seen | Manila Bulletin
Brighter OFW prospects in Taiwan seen | Manila Bulletin: "TAIPEI – At least 40 percent of the 5,000 permanently displaced Filipino workers in Taiwan at the height of the global financial crisis last year are now back to work and prospects for deployment are getting better following a positive outlook for this export-oriented economy.
This was revealed by Philippine labor attaché Reydeluz D. Conferido of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan during a talk with visiting Filipino reporters over the weekend.
“Total deployment has reached 70,000 in all from 60,000 OFWs here last year,” Conferido said.
Of the 70,000 OFWs in Taiwan, 40,000 are engaged in the electronics manufacturing and 20,000 are in social services (caregivers, caretakers, nursing aids, domestic workers) and the others in the construction sector, agriculture and fishery."
This was revealed by Philippine labor attaché Reydeluz D. Conferido of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan during a talk with visiting Filipino reporters over the weekend.
“Total deployment has reached 70,000 in all from 60,000 OFWs here last year,” Conferido said.
Of the 70,000 OFWs in Taiwan, 40,000 are engaged in the electronics manufacturing and 20,000 are in social services (caregivers, caretakers, nursing aids, domestic workers) and the others in the construction sector, agriculture and fishery."
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