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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 government require them to undergo a 21-day institutional quarantine and take RT-PCR test thrice," he said i...
(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 their jobs. However, the Singapore government requires them to undergo a 21-day institutional quarantine...
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