40K OFWs set to return to Taiwan: POLO
POLO Taipei Labor Attache Cesar Chavez Jr. (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - Some 40,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are expected to leave for Taiwan as it reopened its doors to migrant workers, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Taipei reported on Thursday. In a Laging Handa briefing, Labor Attache Cesar Chavez Jr. said these include 15,000 newly-hired workers and 25,000 returning workers (balik-manggagawa). "The demand is in manufacturing because Taiwanese employers prefer our OFWs in semiconductors, computers and electronics, manufacturing," Chavez ...
Source: philippinetimes.com