DMW cannot touch POEA 2022 budget, DBM asserts
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) cannot touch the 2022 budget of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). This was ...
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Marcos tasks Ople to ensure welfare of OFWs, families
The incoming secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants her agency to take ...
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Stay in PH to work, says Laguesma
Incoming Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said Tuesday he would "make a pitch" to encourage more workers to stay in the ...
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BBM spokes named Executive Secretary, more nominees up
Lawyer Vic Rodriguez, the spokesman and chief-of-staff of presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., said Sunday he has been nominated ...
Read moreOple still undecided on DMW post
Susan “Toots” Ople, former Labor undersecretary, is still in the process of “discernment and consultations” on whether if she will ...
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Laguesma, Ople tapped to head labor, migrant workers’ portfolios
Presumptive president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has asked former Labor Secretary Bienvenido “Benny” Laguesma and migrant workers' advocate Susan "Toots" ...
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Deployment ban to Saudi still in effect
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III reiterated on Thursday that the deployment ban to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not ...
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DOLE: Ban stays on new OFWs to Saudi Arabia
The ban on the deployment of newly-hired Filipino workers to Saudi Arabia remains despite an order issued by the newly-created ...
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Drilon says DMW chief’s appointment ‘illegal’
Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on Thursday urged President Duterte to end the confusion triggered by the appointment of ...
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Bello says DMW chief can’t write his own IRR
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III clarified on Saturday that a transition committee has the duty of formulating the implementing rules ...
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