Baldoz urges public to support POEA’s online anti-illegal recruitment campaign

11 May 2016, Philippine Information Agency Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday urged the public to support the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s social media-based anti-illegal recruitment (AIR) campaign. “Since illegal recruiters are using the internet, especially through the social media, in victimizing jobseekers, the POEA has stepped up its AIR drive by harnessing the […]

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17% of Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers Are Engaged in Forced Labor, Study Says

15 March 2016, The Wall Street Journal The plight of domestic workers in Hong Kong has made headlines in recent years after several high-profile cases in which employers had beat and tortured their helpers. A new study shows that, far from being isolated cases, instances of abuse are more routine and widespread than previously suspected.

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SoKor increases labor quota for OFWs

11 March 2016, Philippine Information Agency More overseas Filipino workers will have the chance of finding employment opportunities as South Korea’s manufacturing sector increased its quota under the Employment Permit System (EPS) this year.   Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said she received a letter from Choi Junha, Director of the Foreign Workforce Division

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POEA allows recruitment firms to deploy Filipino nurses to Germany

12 February 2016, Sun Star Manila FROM being a government-to-government arrangement, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has decided to open the deployment of Filipino nurses to Germany to private recruitment agencies. Based on POEA Governing Board Resolution 4-2015, it is already allowing private recruitment firms to recruit aside from the Triple Win Project between

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NZ – Filipino Arrangement on migrant workers

17 September 2015, Scoop Independent News Workplace Relations and Safety and Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse and the Philippines Secretary of Labour and Employment Ms Rosalinda Baldoz have today signed a bilateral Arrangement on the recruitment and treatment of Filipino migrant workers. “New Zealand greatly values the contribution Filipino workers make to New Zealand’s labour force

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MIGRANT LABOR | DOMESTIC HELPERS APPEAL FOR AGENCY REGULATION

24 August 2015, Macau Daily Times Foreign domestic helpers rallied yesterday during a press conference to urge for strengthened regulation of local employment agencies. The maids slammed some of the intermediaries for financially exploiting them upon their arrival in the territory. Ayu Sri Wahyuni and Erik, from the Peduli Buruh Migrant Indonesian Concern Group, disclosed

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Taiwan, Philippines sign cooperation guidelines on hiring workers

4 August 2015, WantChinaTimes.com Workers from the Philippines will be able to travel to Taiwan for work in two or three weeks at the earliest after Taiwan and the Philippines signed cooperation guidelines Monday on worker recruitment, management and service. The agreement was reached at the sixth ministerial conference between labor ministers of the two

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