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The OFW ID was launched in 2017 as an intended replacement for the OEC [8] but the implementation was stopped by 2018. [9] In 2023, President Bongbong Marcos directed the Department of Migrant Workers and other relevant agencies to make OEC processing free-of-charge. The OFW Pass, a digital version of the OEC is being developed.
The agency was founded as the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers through Letter of Instruction No. 537, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on May 1, 1977. [4] [3] It was renamed into the OWWA through Executive Order No. 126, signed by President Corazon Aquino on January 30, 1987. [5]
1. Accredits/registers foreign principals and employers hiring Filipino workers 2. Approves manpower requests of foreign principals and employers 3. Evaluates and processes employment contracts 4. Assists departing workers at the ports of exit 5. Develops and monitors markets and conducts market research 6. Conducts marketing missions 7.
Has concluded a bilateral agreement or arrangement with the government on the protection of the rights of overseas Filipino workers; International companies and contractors with operations in non-compliant companies can still deploy Filipinos to countries with no existing ban. [3]
President Duterte signing Republic Act No. 11641 or the Act Creating the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on December 30, 2021. On July 12, 2019, during the Araw ng Pasasalamat for OFWs (Thanksgiving day for the Overseas Filipino Workers), President Duterte in a speech promised to finish the framework for the creation of a department that caters to the need of OFWs.
After Ferdinand Marcos was removed from office following the People Power Revolution of February 1986, his successor Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order No. 126, which renamed the Welfare Fund as the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). In 1995, the Republic Act 8042, or Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, became law.
The Pakistani community in Dubai numbers over 400,000, [3] forming around 13% of the local population and constituting the third largest ethnicity in the city. [4] The Consulate-General oversees Pakistani interests in Dubai and provides various services to Pakistani citizens in the emirate.
The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement is seen as a failure by most since only 7% of applicants or 200 nurses a year has been accepted on average – mainly due to resistance by domestic stakeholders and failed program implementation. The result is a "lose-lose" outcome where Philippine workers fail to leverage their skills and a ...