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Recruiters
set last ditch moves to regain visas for OPAs
MANILA
-- RECRUITMENT agencies deploying Filipina entertainers to Japan
are launching a “last-ditch effort” to regain access
to the Japanese labor market that has been restricted by new immigration
rules that went into effect March 15. Lorenzo Langomez, president
of the Philippine Association of Recruitment Agencies Deploying
Artists (PARADA), said the group will send a mission to Japan
to try to convince Japanese legislators to continue accepting
Filipina overseas performing artists (OPAs). JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium, Inc. Full
story
POEA
execs unfazed over looming slash
in OFW deployment to Japan
PASIG
CITY -- OFFICIALS of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA) brushed aside forecasts by some recruiters that this year's
deployment of contract workers will drop as a result of new Japanese
immigration rules possibly reducing the number of Filipino workers
bound for that country. POEA deputy administrator Carmelita Dimzon
was upbeat about the government's overseas job prospects for 2005,
even if labor recruiters specializing in the placement of Overseas
Performing Artists (OPAs) in Japan predict at least a 90-percent
drop in OPA deployment to Japan as a result of new rules that went
into effect March 15. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW
Journalism Consortium, Inc. Full
story
OFWs demand gov’t info campaign on Medicare fund transfer
MANILA – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) like Saudi Arabia-based
contract worker Ronnie Abeto are demanding the government to provide
OFWs with proper information on the transfer of some funds of the
Medicare program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
(OWWA) to the Philippine Health Insurance Co. (PHIC). Philhealth
administrator Francisco Duque said the transfer of some of the funds
of OWWA-Medicare to Philhealth is mandated by Executive Order (EO)
392, but some OFWs think the transfer has an impact on their benefits
as OWWA members. JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS reports for the OFW Journalism
Consortium, Inc. Full story
Seafarers learn about benefits, simplicity
of saving
MANILA – CRUNCHING numbers sounds like an odd way to spend
a holiday, but a handful of vacationing seafarers who did so recently
might have found it worth their while after all. In a pre-departure
orientation seminar (PDOS), seafarers and some of their dependents
learned not just about the benefits of saving, but also how simple
it might be for them to save as much as P500,000 (approximately
$9,230) in ten months.. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW
Journalism Consortium, Inc. Full
story
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