Overseas Filipino workers who agree to be repatriated from strife-torn Libya were reassured by the Department of Labor of entrepreneurship and livelihood packages that could help them make a living if they prefer to stay in the Philippines for good, reports GMA News.
Remittances from Filipinos abroad grew by 5.2 percent in April—the slowest pace so far this year—even as the demand for skilled Filipino workers in overseas job markets remained robust, reports Inquirer.net. Personal remittances grew slower compared with January’s 6.8-percent growth, according to the Central Bank.
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A “record breaking” number of overseas Filipino voters registrants during the first month of registration for the 2016 elections, says the Department of Foreign Affairs. The DFA's Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) counted 18,631 new overseas voters processed by various Philippine posts around the world during the month of May, reports GMA News.
Blog posts promoting discrimination against Filipinos in Singapore are isolated and Filipinos remain an important part of the city-state economy, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said June 12, reports Inquirer.net.
Thousands of Filipino workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will be required to pay U.S. Social Security and Medicare taxes starting on Jan. 1, 2015, reports GMA News. Currently, Filipino workers are not required to pay taxes. But the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said employers of workers from the Philippines working in the CNMI must start withholding FICA taxes starting Jan. 1, 2015.
Asia Society named Goldman Sachs and KPMG the best corporate employers of “Asian Pacific American talent” and for being at the forefront of promoting global diversity, reports Inquirer.net. This year’s winners were selected based on the quality of their APA programs as well as the results from their employee surveys, which made up Asia Society’s “2014 Asian Pacific Americans Corporate Survey.”
The ambassador of New Zealand to the Philippines assured that employment opportunities for overseas Filipino workers in their country will continue, reports ABS-CBN News. "The reality is we are a growing economy that needs immigration. We need people to come in to fill jobs," said New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines Reuben Levermore.
At least 13 Filipinos were arrested and convicted for carrying stun guns in Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2014, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. The DFA said this has prompted the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong to start an information campaign reminding Filipinos not to bring or carry stun devices there reports GMA News.
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