From overseas Filipino workers to entrepreneurs. Many OFWs have started to believe there are better opportunities beyond overseas work as more than 3,700 returning OFWs, including those who were repatriated from troubled countries, have ventured into business in 2012, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has reminded employers about the timely release of the 13th-month pay of their workers.
Workers who reported for duty despite the suspension of work in areas hit by heavy rains and massive flooding last Tuesday would get additional pay, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said on Thursday.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday defended the government’s policy on outsourcing at the International Labor Organization regional meeting being held here after an ILO delegate questioned the government’s handling of the labor dispute at Philippine Airlines (PAL).
