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  2. Overseas Filipino Worker - Wikipedia

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    Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these, female workers comprised a larger portion, making up 59. ...

  3. List of deployment bans on Overseas Filipino Workers

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    Deployment of "skilled" and "semi-skilled" were allowed on May 12 [9] and the ban was completely lifted on May 16. [10] Partial. May 12, 2018 – May 16, 2018. Libya. Total. February 22, 2011 – December 20, 2011. POEA suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to Libya due to political unrest. In December 2011, workers in the medical and ...

  4. Overseas Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    Deployed Landbased Overseas Filipino Workers by Destination (New hires and Rehires) (MS Excel format), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, 2005, on OFWs: 733,970 are landbased, 247,707 are seabased, which make a sum of 981,677. There is a 5.15% growth since 2004's 933,588. Remittances are US$9,727,138,000. There is a 26.6% growth ...

  5. Department of Migrant Workers - Wikipedia

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    www.dmw.gov.ph. The Department of Migrant Workers (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Manggagawang Pandarayuhan, [3] abbreviated as DMW) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the protection of the rights and promote the welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and their families. The department was created under the ...

  6. Overseas Filipinos during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    Overseas Filipinos, including Filipino migrant workers outside the Philippines, have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.As of June 1, 2021, there have been 19,765 confirmed COVID-19 cases of Filipino citizens residing outside the Philippines with 12,037 recoveries and 1,194 deaths. [1]

  7. Murder of Jullebee Ranara - Wikipedia

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    Jullebee Cabilis Ranara was a 34-year old woman and an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who was serving as a domestic worker for her last employer in Kuwait. [5] Ranara got employed through the facilitation of Philippine-based employment agency Catalist International Manpower Services Company and its overseas counterpart in Kuwait, Platinum International Office for Recruitment of Domestic Manpower.

  8. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration was established in 1982 through Executive Order No. 797. The goal of the agency's establishment was to promote and monitor the overseas employment of Filipino workers. [3] The POEA was reorganized in 1987 through Executive Order No. 247 in order to respond to changing markets and economic ...

  9. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (abbreviated as OWWA, Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Kagalingan ng Manggagawa sa Ibayong-dagat[2]) is an attached agency of the Department of Migrant Workers of the Philippines. It protects the interests of Overseas Filipino Workers and their families, providing social security, cultural services and help ...