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Its head office is at F.B. Harrison Street corner 7th Street in Pasay, near EDSA Extension, Philippines. 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.
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.
3. Conducts Pre-Deployment Orientation Seminars (PDOS) to workers hired through the government-to-government arrangement and name hires 4. Provides technical assistance in the drafting of bilateral and multilateral agreements 5. Provides legal assistance to victims of illegal recruitment 6. OFW global mapping and profiling 7.
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 ...
The OFW Hospital has a bed capacity of 102. [8] It is intended mainly to serve Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their dependents. [3] [4]In 2024, President Marcos Jr., as tribute to Department of Migrant Workers's Secretary Ople, led the groundbreaking of the Hospital's Bagong Pilipinas Cancer Care Center, which is the country's third such facility.
A Change.org petition was made by a group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to scrap the agency's directive to increase the mandatory contribution collection to 3%. [18] The petition refers to PhilHealth Circular 2020-0014, [19] dated April 2, 2020, in which the current OFW salaries are affected especially in the ongoing pandemic. [18]
Remittances sent by Overseas Filipino Workers to the Philippines from abroad are not themselves subject to taxation by the Philippine government, which has no jurisdiction over foreign remittance. However, a value-added tax is imposed on transfer fees charged by the remittance companies. [ 21 ]
As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the policies and programs which promote and protect the rights and welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) including their families. [1]