OFWs may be recalled by former employers — labor chief
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said on Saturday the reopening of economies around the world could lead to the re-hiring of overseas Filipino workers by their former employers.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said on Saturday the reopening of economies around the world could lead to the re-hiring of overseas Filipino workers by their former employers.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Sunday said it needed an additional P2.5 billion to fund a third tranche of its financial assistance program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Thursday lashed out at lawyers of broadcasting giant ABS CBN for making claims that the company’s seasonal work arrangement for program employees received tacit approval from the Department of Labor and Employment.
The Department of Labor and Employment announced Thursday the activation of a tracking system for all overseas Filipino workers intending to return to the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The official definition of being “employed” is actually broad. It means a person has work and has done “any work even for one hour during the reference period for pay or profit, or work without pay on the farm or business enterprise operated by a member of the same household related by blood, marriage, or adoption.”