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Follow RT on The Philippines has offered to lift the cap stopping nurses and other healthcare workers from leaving the country if the United Kingdom and Germany send Covid-19 vaccines in exchange.
Though the country currently has a 5,000 person per year limit for healthcare workers leaving the country, International Labour Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas told Reuters the government was
“considering the request to lift the deployment cap” – but only if an agreement for at least 600,000 Covid-19 vaccines can be made.
The vaccines would be used
“to inoculate outbound workers and hundreds of thousands of Filipino repatriates.”
The concept of a nurses-for-vaccines swap was slammed by Filipino Nurses United official Jocelyn Andamo, who said she was
Published February 22, 2021, 5:35 PM
How bad does the United Arab Emirates government (UAE) want the formal deployment of Filipino workers there to resume?
Bad enough for them to send a “high-level” delegation to Manila so they may talk to senior Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) officials even during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
(AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
DOLE-International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Director Alice Visperas revealed in a virtual press briefing Monday, Feb.22 that the Joint Committee Meeting or JCM between the two nations will push through on March 1 and 2, following the arrival of UAE officials here.
Topping the agenda according to Visperas is the memorandum of agreement (MOA) that had been signed between UAE and the Philippines.
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) based in Canada are eligible to receive CAD 2,000 (Canadian dollars) worth of monetary pandemic aid for three months, a Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) official bared Monday, Feb. 22.
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