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As part of its post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery plan, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will provide livelihood assistance of P20,000 to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in the country. …
Returning and stranded OFWs may get ₱20,000 livelihood assistance – DOLE Read More
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), except health care workers covered by the deployment ban, are now allowed to work abroad, Malacañang announced on Thursday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this was …
OFWs, except health workers, allowed to work abroad Read More
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) assures overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that they will not require payment of Philhealth premiums for their Overseas Employment Certificate (OECs). In an Advisory No. 56 …
POEA: Philhealth contributions of OFWs not required for OEC issuance Read More
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) no longer have to worry about paying higher PhilHealth premium contributions at this time of health crisis brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is …
Gov’t suspends PhilHealth premium payments for OFWs Read More
Mayor Jerry P. Treñas confirmed that five overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were allowed to go home tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) after the results confirmatory testing using …
5 returning OFWs in Iloilo City positive for COVID-19 Read More
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said that a total of nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who came home from Manila tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in rapid …
Treñas: 9 OFWs from Manila tested positive for COVID-19 in rapid test Read More
Another Ilongga health worker abroad, this time in Ontario, Canada, succumbed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which she contracted in the facility that she was working in. The 54-year-old Christine …
Ilongga health worker for 31 years in Canada dies of COVID-19 Read More
Iloilo Province has two new positive cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), both of them from the municipality of Tigbauan. In a video posted on her official Facebook page on …
Tigbauan reports 2 new cases of COVID-19 Read More
2GO Group Inc. is ready to welcome aboard returning Filipino seafarers and workers to carry out their mandatory 14-day quarantine on two of its passenger vessels, the shipping and logistics …
2GO All Set to Welcome Repatriated Seafarers for Mandatory Quarantine Read More
Landbased and sea-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose employments were affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic will get one-time financial assistance of P10,000, said Department of Labor and Employment. DOLE …
OFWs displaced by COVID-19 to get ₱10,000 Read More