Government extends aid to 289 OFWs from Kuwait
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) welcomed home and extended assistance to 289 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait, including ...
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Around 150 Pinoys want repatriation amid protests in Sri Lanka
Amid an ongoing widespread protests over the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, an estimated 150 Filipinos in the country have requested repatriation, ...
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Ople creates unit for OFW repatriation
The newly-created Department of Migrant Workers will have a separate office that will handle requests for the repatriation of overseas ...
Read moreOple wants OFWs deployed quicker; Hospital workers too despite shortage
Incoming Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople wants to hasten the processing of the deployment of overseas Filipino workers, ...
Read moreDMW 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 ...
Read moreMarcos 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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