Rappler's latest stories on Philippine Overseas Employment Agency
House panel eyes additional P5-billion aid for OFWs
Labor officials estimate that some 500,000 overseas Filipino workers may be out of work by the end of August
Duterte asks health workers to stay in PH during coronavirus outbreak
While President Rodrigo Duterte made the appeal, it is not clear if he approved an Inter-Agency Task Force resolution to allow health workers with existing contracts to leave the country
DOLE suspends OFW deployment to Kuwait
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) will stop processing and issuing overseas employment certificates (OECs) to all Kuwait-bound workers while the deaths of 7 OFWs are being investigated
Bello looks into alleged corruption in POEA
Labor Undersecretary Dominador Say says a division in POEA has fixers who extort money from OFWs who want government permission to be hired directly
How Duterte gov't cared for OFWs in first 100 days
In his campaign Duterte promised to make OFW concerns his top labor priority Did he live up to his promise?
New Zealand job applicants arrest fake recruiter
The POEA says the duped applicants who were allegedly charged P35 000 to P40 000 each arrested the recruiter in the agency s premises
Tech-based services needed to protect OFWs – research
Among Filipino migrant workers isolation from network connectivity – via email phone or social network – was a key indicator for labor trafficking says a University of Southern California report
Filipinos warned against accepting fake jobs in Canada
The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto releases this announcement about a possible job scam in Canada
Recruiter faces probe for death of migrant worker
Migrante International raises concerns that the conditions surrounding the worker s death were kept from her family
A labor attaché's desperate act
It boggles the mind why having found out about the agency’s true ownership Roldan did not do more than suspend its operations
Iglesia ni Cristo and POEA partner vs illegal recruitment
INC has a presence in 100 countries potential destination of overseas Filipino workers
OFWs now free to go to Iraqi Kurdistan
The Philippines has lifted an eight year ban on its nationals working in Iraq but only for the Middle Eastern country s autonomous Kurdistan region
