Five exceptional Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) were given Values Awards by Cebu Pacific Air (CEB) as it celebrated the 20th anniversary of its office in Hong Kong.

CebPac honors OFWs in HK

Even as the country’s unemployment rate in November 2023 stood at 3.6 percent or at 1.83 million individuals (down from 2.18 million in 2022) and underemployment was maintained at 12 percent or 5.87 million people, labor and tourism officials are confident that overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) who wish to settle for good can be trained to be tourism frontliners or entrepreneurs.

Tourism jobs await returning OFWs

Last Wednesday, at least 16 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including a baby, returned from Israel where conflict with the Palestinian militant group Hamas is ensuing.

First batch of Filipino workers arrived from Israel

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The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced the return to the country of two more batches of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Israel this week. Officer-in-Charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac said a fifth batch of OFWs  arrived from Israel via Etihad Airways flight EY 424 last week.

The 5th Batch of Pinoys Arrives from Israel

Senator Raffy Tulfo has urged Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) head Arnel Ignacio to make necessary adjustments to the salaries of certain OWWA employees who are primarily responsible for the well-being of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Tulfo urges OWWA to raise salaries of job order personnel

A third batch of Filipinos to escape the ongoing war in Israel arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3, around 3:55 pm last Monday, October 23, via Etihad Airline.


25 Pinoy, including an infant, arrives from Israel

Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac personally leads the closure of Legalconnect Travel Consultancy Services at Barangay Veterans Village in Quezon City Tuesday, January 23, 2024. 

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Six Filipinos from Lebanon arrived Friday morning November 3, 2023 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on board Emirates Airlines flight EK 336.

6 Pinoy from Lebanon escape the ongoing War

(From left) Rex Varona, the National Project Coordinator of the Safe and Fair Programme at the International Labor Organization, along with Asec. Jerome Alcantara, the Assistant Secretary for Land-based Services at the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), and other leaders and advocates for migrant workers' rights led the International Labour Organization's SAFE and FAIR Programme Philippines Culminating event held at Novotel in Quezon City on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

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