Manila---The Department of Labor and Employment will hold a groundbreaking ceremony in Pampanga on Labor Day (May 1) for the first-ever "OFW hospital" in the Philippines that will provide "free services" to overseas Filipino workers, a labor official said.
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Foreign domestic workers will get their long-standing demand for regulated working hours if Hongkongers also have standard working hours, a lawmaker said. Legislative Council member Kenneth Leung said local Hong Kong workers had also been asking for standard working hours but this has not been granted by government. He added that he...
Manila---The Philippines and China will hold “exploratory talks” next week on the possible deployment of Filipino health workers to the mainland, according to Philippine Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III. Bello said he will visit China from April 24 to 27 to meet with his Chinese counterpart to discuss the possible deployment of ...
THE Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) has recommended to Manila that overseas Filipino workers who are going to be deployed to Hong Kong for the first time should get vaccinated against measles. Labor Attache Jalilo Dela Torre said they recommended that “all HK-bound workers,” not just domestic workers, should get vaccinated against ...
BECAUSE of their contribution to Hong Kong’s economy, foreign domestic workers should still be able to access subsidized medical services in public hospitals even if they had been terminated, a lawmaker said. Legislative Council (LegCo) member Fernando Cheung, chair LegCo Panel on Manpower, said he will propose this month for the HK government...
Although she is suffering from stage 3 cancer, a 38-year-old Filipino domestic worker who was fired by her boss after being diagnosed with the ailment went to the Labour Tribunal this morning and won $30,000 after the camp of her former employer decided to settle. Labour Tribunal Principal Presiding Officer Eric Tam awarded the amount ...
After a vote counting machine (VCM) “jammed” on Saturday, two VCMs malfunctioned yesterday at the Bayanihan Centre in Kennedy Town, Consul General Antonio Morales said. Morales said they were also verifying a complaint from one voter who claimed that another VCM counted two “extra” votes for senator that the voter did not cast. “We...
WILL Filipinos in Hong Kong retain the crown? The monthlong overseas voting for the 2019 Philippine midterm elections begins tomorrow (April 13) as officials eye a 60 percent turnout for Filipino voters in Hong Kong. Consul Robert D. Quintin said the Filipino community in HK consistently had the highest voter turnout among the different Filip...
A 40-year-old Filipino woman was killed last night (April 10) during a fight with man who identified himself as her husband in Kowloon City. An officer of the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) said the victim had the initials A.C. A consulate official asked that her identity be withheld until her family in th...
A Legislative Council (LegCo) member has promised to take up with the government the request to lower loan interest rates for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. LegCo member Kenneth Leung said during a forum at the Philippine Consulate General on March 24 that he would take up the issue with HK government officials during the quest...
