{"id":210513,"date":"2019-04-18T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=210513"},"modified":"2019-04-18T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:08:04","slug":"bello-sees-more-jobs-for-ofws-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/18\/bello-sees-more-jobs-for-ofws-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bello sees more jobs for OFWs in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_210514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210514\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dole-sec-bello-palace-presscon-august-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210514\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dole-sec-bello-palace-presscon-august-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dole-sec-bello-palace-presscon-august-1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dole-sec-bello-palace-presscon-august-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dole-sec-bello-palace-presscon-august-1-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; After opening jobs for Filipino English teachers, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Tuesday said possible employment opportunities for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), particularly medical workers, may soon be available in China.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said he will discuss the possibility of possible hiring of caregivers and nurses during his supposed audience with Chinese Minister of Labor next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll go to China for a possible meeting with the Minister of Labor to discuss possible labor relations,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we will have is just exploratory talks,\u201d Bello added.<\/p>\n<p>Bello will be in China from April 24 to 27 as part of the entourage of President Rodrigo Duterte for the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019ll be part of the party of the President but I will leave ahead as I want to meet separately the Minister of Labor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Philippines and China signed a bilateral agreement involving the deployment of English teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Through the accord, an initial 2,000 teachers would be deployed in the next two years. The hiring and deployment would be through government-to-government.<\/p>\n<p>The hired teachers will get USD1,200 (PHP62,000) monthly salary and the agreement could be renewed after two years if the need arises.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bello reported that the country will be establishing three Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLOs) in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are putting up one in Beijing, one in Shanghai, and one in Shenzhen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello noted that they are looking to make the POLOs operational before June as they are now accepting applicants for the posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; After opening jobs for Filipino English teachers, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Tuesday said possible employment opportunities for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":210514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210515,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513\/revisions\/210515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}