While government remains optimistic that remittances and Christmas spending will help pick up the economy after weak third quarter growth, research group IBON said there is no reason to be certain that the economy is going to achi

Migrante Sectoral Party today slammed the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) dismissal of the party’s verified opposition to the poll body’s decision to disqualify Migrante from participating in the next year’s party-list race.

The biggest global alliance of OFWs paid their last respects to former President Corazon Aquino as she was laid to rest at the Manila Memorial Park at Paranaque City by calling her the opposite of President Gloria Arroyo in terms of caring for the welfare of OFWs.
“OFWs in almost 200 countries across the world mourns [...]

LABOR   The advisory states that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) should accept below minimum wage levels for as long as the worker signs a contract.

Instead of implementing its palliative training program, government can create jobs for health workers that are stable, sufficiently paying, and under good working conditions to encourage them to stay in the country and serve local health care needs.

(New York) – China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) should abolish the discriminatory hukou, or household registration system, which determines where citizens can live and whether they can have access to the most basic human services, Human Rights Watch said today. The restrictions are especially harmful to the country’s estimated 150 million migrant workers. The congress, [...]

HUMAN RIGHTS   Human Rights Watch said that ASEAN’s human rights body should independently investigate and report on human rights conditions in member countries, and that Burma should be a priority.

OFWs & MIGRATION / ECONOMY   According to Migrante, women workers have been most affected by retrenchments brought by the global crisis. Seventy percent of the workers in the export processing zones in the country and majority of OFWs in the electronic and similar industries abroad are Filipino women.

Migrante International, a global alliance of Filipino migrant organizations, accused President Arroyo of personally luring OFWs into the burrow of illegal recruiters, human traffickers and loan sharks when she graces a job fair which was held at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) last Wednesday.
The group claims that the President practically ignored reports of illegal [...]

KASAMMAKO the Unity of Filipino Migrant Workers Associations in Korea has cast a cloud of doubt on the appropriateness and effectiveness of the responses of the Philippine Embassy in Seoul to the situation of OFWs in a ‘shaky economic climate’ in South Korea. The greater concerns for protection of labour and human rights of [...]

Marching from Sto Domingo Church to the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) building, Migrante International and Kilusang Mayo Uno together with retrenched workers here and abroad have joined forces to condemn the alleged inhuman and illegal dismissals being done by companies which are cutting down on labor due to the global financial and economic crisis.
“With [...]

The largest alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) groups worldwide has asked both houses of congress to investigate the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) allegations that the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is engaging in large scale illegal recruitment and human trafficking victimizing at least 10,000 OFWs monthly.
“What we have been saying right from the [...]

A twenty-year-old Filipino waiter, who suffered second degree burns to his face and chest caught fire in a work related accident has now sought compensation for the injuries he has suffered.
It was on 21 January 2009 that the waiter, Tibio Melvin Delos Reyes, meet with the accident when a flaming Lamborghini wine, which was served [...]

The situation OFWs are now facing is a wake-up call for government which has mythologized overseas remittances as some kind of magic bullet for development