Deployment of workers to Korea continues — POEA

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) yesterday clarified erroneous reports that the deployment of Filipino workers to Korea through the Employment Permit System (EPS) has stopped due to irregularities in the system. Read more

1,384 pass marine engineer exams

Less than 60% or 1,384 out of the 2,463 examinees passed the various grades of the written phase of the Marine Engineer Officers Licensure Examinations. (View complete list of successful examinees). Read more

POEA warns against internet scams

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is warning job seekers against entertaining job offers made through the internet. Read more

Overseas opportunities for Filipino nurses

By Crispin R Aranda

The world desperately needs nurses. The United States alone needs a million nurses until 2012. The United Kingdom has 700,000 migrant or residency visas under its new migration program called the Points Based System, which covers nurses and caregivers. Read more

Circle of Safety | By STEVE C NAROMAL

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Filipino seafarers in high-risk area to get hazard pay

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is set to issue a resolution that will double the wages of Filipino seafarers on ships passing through the Gulf of Aden, a high-risk area infested with pirates.

After a dialogue with ship owners, manning agencies and unions of officers and seafarers, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque announced yesterday that an emergency meeting of the governing board of the POEA is being called to pen the resolution that will amend the seafarers’ employment contracts, local news reports said. The POEA resolution will provide for hazard pay to seafarers. It will also allow them to terminate their contract rather than enter these dangerous waters. Read more

New study guide for UK citizenship test released

The Stationery Office and The Home Office released on Tuesday a new Study Guide to help candidates pass the British Citizenship test. This publication supports the official Life in the United Kingdom Handbook which was the bestselling political title of 2007.

The Life in the United Kingdom: Official Citizenship Test Study Guide provides the following:

• Easy to understand information about the test and who needs to take it,
• 200 practice questions,
• ‘Hints’ and ‘Warnings’ throughout the book to help candidates learn key points required for the test, and
• Direct references to Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship Handbook.

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Saudi Arabia recruiting 2,000 Filipino nurses

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is recruiting 2,000 Filipino nurses in cooperation with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), said a report from Inquirer.net on Monday. Read more

Migrant workers’ group oppose new Taiwan tax

The Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants is lobbying against the implementation of a 20% tax on foreigners, including migrant workers, who stay in Taiwan for 183 days or less, starting January 2009. The new tax was approved last August 13. Read more

Undocumented Filipinos in Sabah get travel papers

The Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has dispatched a consular team, headed by Vice-Consul Shirlene Mananquil, to Sabah to assist the large number of undocumented Filipinos in the area. These Filipinos need travel papers so that their stay and employment in Malaysia could be legalized, or they could return to the Philippines. Read more

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