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Philippines lifts restrictions on OFW departures as coronavirus lockdown eases

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 14 04:09 PM

MANILA- The government has lifted restrictions on Filipino departures for overseas employment as the country prepared to ease lockdown measures enforced because of the coronavirus pandemic.    Read more »

Philippines allows healthcare workers with existing overseas contracts to work abroad again

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 09:50 PM

All Filipino healthcare workers with perfected and signed overseas employment contracts as of March 8, 2020 will be allowed to depart the country Read more »

Health workers' right to travel 'takes backseat' to COVID-19 emergency: POEA

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Updated as of Apr 13 09:35 PM

The right to travel "takes a backseat" to public welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government agency that suspended the overseas deployment of health workers said Monday. Read more »

Overseas health workers scapegoats for gov’t failure to invest in frontliners

Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 10:09 AM

The government has banned the deployment of Filipino health workers abroad, claiming they are needed to beef up a health system “under severe strain” from the novel coronavirus contagion.   Read more »

PH top diplomat says to fight ban on deployment of Filipino health workers abroad

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 11 01:58 PM

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Saturday he would oppose and raise before the Cabinet the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration's (POEA) move to suspend the deployment of Filipino health workers overseas while the country is fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.  Read more »

Philippines suspends deployment of health workers abroad to fight COVID-19

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Updated as of Apr 10 06:14 PM

The Philippines suspended the deployment of doctors, nurses and healthcare workers abroad to preserve its frontline force against the COVID-19 pandemic, the overseas job-matching office said. Read more »

Gov't to weigh possible travel ban on S. Korea amid coronavirus spread: Nograles

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Updated as of Feb 25 01:06 PM

MANILA - The task force on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will be meeting on Wednesday to determine if a ban will also be imposed on South Korea, a government official said.   Read more »

Mga OFW sa Kuwait natuwa sa pag-alis ng deployment ban

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Posted at Feb 14 10:46 PM

Pero sana raw ay nanatili ang ban para sa mga baguhang mamamasukan lalo't inaayos pa ng Kuwait at Pilipinas ang standard employment contract para sa kanila. Read more »

PH lifts deployment ban to Kuwait

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 13 10:19 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) —The Philippines lifted its deployment ban to Kuwait, as the two governments reached an agreement for better working conditions of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said Thursday. Read more »

PH partially lifts deployment ban of workers to Kuwait

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Posted at Feb 06 03:48 PM

Household service workers are still covered by the ban while new and returning skilled Filipino workers are now allowed to fly to Kuwait, Bello said.   Read more »

DOLE eyes partial lifting of deployment ban in Kuwait after officials meet

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Posted at Feb 05 10:22 PM

The DOLE said that after a "fruitful" meeting between Philippine and Kuwaiti officials, the agency is "set to move" for the partial lifting of the deployment ban. Read more »

Kuwait, Philippines agree on harmonized standard employment contract for Filipino HSWs

Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 04:45 AM

KUWAIT CITY - Officials of Kuwait and the Philippines signed on Monday an agreement on the proposed harmonized Standard Employment Contract for Filipino household service workers (HSWs) deployed to Kuwait. Read more »

Senate panel backs proposed permanent deployment ban of Filipino domestic workers to Kuwait

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 06:31 PM

A Senate panel is likely to support proposals to permanently ban the deployment of Filipino domestic workers to Kuwait, citing the continuous inhumane treatment of household helpers in the Middle Eastern country, its chair said Tuesday. Read more »

Slain Filipina maid's employers in Kuwait face murder raps: Labor chief

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Posted at Jan 28 02:52 PM

The employers of a Filipina maid in Kuwait were charged with murder in connection to her death, which prompted the Philippine government this month to ban the deployment of workers there, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said Tuesday.  Read more »

PH sets 2 conditions for lifting of Kuwait deployment ban

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Updated as of Jan 24 11:13 AM

The Philippines will lift its total deployment ban of migrant workers to Kuwait on 2 conditions: the signing of a template contract for Filipino workers and when the Gulf State shows "earnest efforts" to deliver justice to slain household worker Jeanelyn Villavende, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Friday. Read more »

Kuwait to allow PH join investigation of slain OFW case

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 07:16 AM

The Kuwaiti government is willing to allow investigators from the Philippines to join the investigation of the death overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Jeanelyn Villavende, in the hands of her employer, Kuwaiti's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said.  Read more »

Ex-labor exec calls for 'safer, rights-based markets' for OFWs

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Posted at Jan 18 06:02 PM

MANILA - The Philippine government should find other market options for Filipino workers who are going to be affected by the total deployment ban in Kuwait. Read more »

PH gov't urged to identify alternative markets for OFWs amid Kuwait deployment ban

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Posted at Jan 18 05:17 PM

Susan Ople, head of the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, is calling on the Philippine government to find alternative markets for Filipino household workers. Read more »

Duterte aprubado ang total deployment ban sa Kuwait

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Posted at Jan 17 06:29 PM

Aprubado kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang isinulong ng DOLE na total deployment ban sa Kuwait, kasunod ng karumaldumal na sinapit ng Pinay worker na si Jeanelyn Villavende sa kamay ng kaniyang employer.  Read more »

Duterte greenlights deployment ban to Kuwait

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 03:10 PM

MANILA- President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the labor department’s call for a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait following the death of a household worker there, Malacañang said Friday.   Read more »