{"id":262218,"date":"2020-07-19T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262218"},"modified":"2020-07-19T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:10:42","slug":"govt-to-help-bring-back-jobs-for-ofws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/19\/govt-to-help-bring-back-jobs-for-ofws\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to help bring back jobs for OFWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242406\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-242406 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-1024x665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III during a press conference on Thursday (Sept. 27, 2018), which is held at the DOLE main office in Intramuros, Manila.(PNA photo by Gil Calinga)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2013 The government will exhaust all means to help overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) regain jobs they lost abroad due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III assured Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bello made the assurance as the possibility of OFWs being rehired by their former employers gained ground with the reopening of many economies around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany governments went ahead of us in easing restrictions. Their industries are almost fully operational again by now. They could recall our OFWs anytime,\u201d Bello said in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, he said, the labor department is committed to provide assistance required by OFWs.<\/p>\n<p>The labor chief said the government is able and ready to engage with foreign governments with new policies on migrant workers with regards to safety and health measures against the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey might ask more requirements from our OFWs like government certifications to prove they are not a threat to the health and safety of their people. We can do that,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>He also raised the possibilities that OFWs could be rehired en masse by economies that are fast recovering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would require transportation and if our OFWs need chartered flights we will do our best to come up with enough logistics for that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, experts from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) noted the pandemic could trigger stricter health and safety rules among recovering economies against workers from countries with weak anti-Covid 19 system.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said the Philippine has nothing to worry about the government\u2019s way of dealing with the pandemic as it has sustained a strong and effective response against the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time we checked our health system and responses to control the virus, we\u2019re just doing fine,\u201d he said. <strong><em>(DOLE PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The government will exhaust all means to help overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) regain jobs they lost abroad due &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":242406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-department-of-labor-and-employment","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262218","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=262218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262219,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262218\/revisions\/262219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}