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Labor Attaché in Tokyo Marie Rose Escalada (left) and Hidilyn Diaz (Photos from Zoom, Philippine Airlines) During that short conversation, the 30-year-old Diaz imparted to Escalada some inspirational words that the latter described as “very touching”. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) official said she later told overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) about it. “I spoke with her [Diaz] but only virtually kasi very strict po yung Olympic Committee sa Japan (because the Olympic Com...

US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia Declassified US diplomatic cables from the 1970s have revealed the intense, daily preoccupation by the American State Department—and its many informants throughout the Labor Party and trade union leadership—with how to contain and quash the eruption of potentially revolutionary working-class rebellions in Australia and internationally. The extremely limited media coverage of a recently-published study of ...

Published July 6, 2021, 10:36 AM The Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been directed to go after the owner of a foreign recruitment firm who allegedly raped a Filipina overseas worker, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Tuesday, July 6. (File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting) In his urgent memorandum to Labor Attaché Fidel Macauyag, DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III instructed the POLO to work with authorities there for immediate legal acti...

(Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sunday, July 4, calling the Philippines’ achievement “historic”. “This marks a significant shift in the policy-making global tripartite body that has been traditionally led by big, powerful member-countries,” DOLE said. The ILO is a United Nations (UN) agency mandated to advance social and economic justice through setting international labor standards. Founded in October 1919 under the ...

Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated. Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media] The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, whic...

The supposed abundance of job opportunities in the United States (US) has spurred the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) to seek a review of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases's (IATF) annual deployment cap on Filipino healthcare worke

Published June 7, 2021 11:16am Overseas Filipino workers headed to Singapore are not required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they are allowed entry, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. According to Labor Attaché in Singapore Saul De Vries, the Singaporean government is currently implementing strict quarantine protocols but vaccination is not included. "It is not a condition for OFWs to be inoculated before departing for their jobs. However, the Singapore governme...

(Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN) This was relayed to the public by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sunday, June 6, after it received such assurance from Labor Attaché in Singapore Saul De Vries. De Vries said that while the government of Singapore is implementing strict quarantine protocols due to the local recurrence of COVID-19 cases, vaccination is not part of the arrival protocols in the city-state. “It is not a condition for OFWs to be inoculated before departing for thei...

Who says Philippine labor officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) haven't been doing anything against erring recruitment agencies and abusive employers? Masjid Nabawi, Medina, KSA (Photo by Adli Wahid / Unsplash) The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported Sunday, May 30 that a

The temporary suspension on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been lifted, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Saturday, May 29. (Photo from DOLE Facebook) This, after the Saudi government assur