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Is a signatory to and/or a ratifier of multilateral conventions, declarations or resolutions relating to the protection of workers, including migrant workers; and; Has concluded a bilateral agreement or arrangement with the government on the protection of the rights of overseas Filipino workers;
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.
Overseas Filipino Workers also decide to work abroad during their prime years, i.e. 25–34 years old. This age bracket constitutes 48.5 percent of the total OFW population in 2014. On the side of the Philippines, this diaspora of Filipinos is a loss to the country due to the productivity that they could have contributed had they been working ...
Buhay OFW (English: life of an OFW) was a weekly public service program catered for Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs based in different countries outside the Philippines. The program also featured government and non-government organizations who are charged with taking care of the concerns of OFWs such as labor and recruitment issues.
The global financial crisis of 2008–2009 took a toll on the working Filipino population in the United Arab Emirates, with 3,000 Filipino workers losing their jobs in December 2008 alone. [6] The overall population shrank by 20% at the end of 2008 as compared to the end of 2007. [2]
During the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino workers in the labor industry experienced the effects of government corruption, crony capitalism, [1] and cheap labor for foreign transnational industries, [2] One of the objectives of Martial Law was to cheapen labor costs, in order to attract transnational corporations to export labor to the ...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaking to a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers from Saudi Arabia in 2016. Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are "victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other labor malpractices," according to John Leonard Monterona, the Middle East coordinator of Migrante, a Manila-based OFW organization. [14]
An overseas Filipino (Filipino: Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country. This term generally applies to both people of Filipino ancestry and citizens abroad.