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Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said on Monday some P340 million worth of loans have been granted to 670 mostly distressed returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to help them set up small businesses and prevent them from accepting risky jobs abroad.

Money sent in by overseas Filipino workers (OFW) reached $6.9 billion as of end-April, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Monday.

In the wake of attacks on Burmese migrants in Malaysia, 167 Burmese nationals returned to Burma from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Eleven News reported.

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is calling on the government to ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers as the majority of migrant workers abroad are females in the domestic sector.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has acknowledged before a leaders’ meeting at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva that the country’s robust economic growth, highlighted by the 7.8-percent expansion of gross domesti

If Myanmar government’s special delegation sent to Malaysia to investigate recent attacks on Myanmar migrant workers fails to accomplish their tasks, the issue will be raised in Parliament, a Lower House MP has said.

LABOR Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said some 80,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan will now find it easier to seek help from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (Polo) with the government’s acquisition of a property in Taipei that will provide various OFW-related services.

KUALA LUMPUR — Differing accounts are emerging from Burmese migrants and refugees in Malaysia about recent deadly violence here that has claimed several lives and pitted Burmese groups in Malaysia against each other.