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Biggest IKEA store

Officials of Swedish furniture manufacturer and distributor IKEA announce the hiring of close to 500 Filipino workers in preparation for next year’s opening of...

7.3 million Filipinos go jobless

At least 7.3 million Filipino workers lost their jobs due to the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the highest since 1998, the...

Victoria Court motel chain closes down

Motel chain Victoria Court is closing its doors due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the imposition of quarantine protocols that has...

Bello: Only 5k OFWs left out

At least 5,000 migrant Filipino workers are still in quarantine facilities in Metro Manila, although more than 19,000 of the stranded 24,000 have been...

Local Roundup: Travel ban lifted

Travel ban lifted LGUs may now buy rapid test kits School guidelines The Filipino workers covered by the deployment ban—except health care workers—are now allowed to work...

‘18-m workers may lose jobs in 6 years’ 

The labor group Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines feared more than 18-million Filipino workers would lose their jobs in the next...

‘Prioritize Filipino workers’ – Villanueva

Senator Joel Villanueva on Saturday urged Filipino traders and employers to give fellow countrymen preferential treatment over foreign workers amid the reported influx of...

Japan opens market for Philippine skilled workers

The Japan government will open its labor market for 500,000 foreign workers for agriculture, construction, shipbuilding, nursing and other healthcare services between 2020 to...

Rights body hits Kuwait, defends workers rescue

THE three diplomats who are facing arrest by the Kuwait government for rescuing distressed Filipino workers should be spared because they were only following...

Philippines sets sights on Russia as ME alternative

THE Department of Labor and Employment is eyeing Russia as an alternative destination for Filipino workers as more abuses against them are being reported...

DFA to hold talks with Kuwait envoy

FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said Monday the Philippines will try to smoothen out relations with Kuwait that were strained after a video...

100 workers come home from Kuwait

KUWAIT—The Philippine government on Saturday repatriated at least 100 undocumented Filipino workers from Kuwait under the amnesty program granted by the Kuwaiti government. A total...

Deployment ban stays pending PH-Kuwait deal

THE ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait will remain despite the death sentence handed down by a Kuwaiti court to the...

Duterte insists on deployment ban if …

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte says he will not lift the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait if the Kuwaiti government disagrees with...
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