{"id":271974,"date":"2020-10-15T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=271974"},"modified":"2020-10-15T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:20:26","slug":"dole-eyes-europe-as-potential-new-market-for-displaced-ofws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/15\/dole-eyes-europe-as-potential-new-market-for-displaced-ofws\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE eyes Europe as potential new market for displaced OFWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_260462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260462\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Eb-rAYHU0AAdf3P.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260462\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Eb-rAYHU0AAdf3P.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Eb-rAYHU0AAdf3P.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Eb-rAYHU0AAdf3P-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Eb-rAYHU0AAdf3P-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He said among the potential new markets for the deployment of OFWs are Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, and eastern Europe. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/status\/1278928873774673920\">Photo: DFAPHL\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The government is looking at Europe as an alternative market for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were displaced by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number one program for our migrant workers is to look for a new market for employment purposes. We are opening new markets where we can employ our overseas Filipino workers,\u201d Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Thursday in a Laging Handa briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He said among the potential new markets for the deployment of OFWs are Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, and eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we are still being cautious because we want to make sure that once they go there, they would not be infected with Covid-19,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said job opportunities are also available locally especially in the construction industry and business process outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a recent meeting with the IT-BPO sector. They are in need of 30,000 call center agents. With that, more OFWs would be accommodated in terms of employment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said livelihood programs are also available for those who would like to stay in the country to be with their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the new concept of a collective livelihood program.\u00a0<em>Mas malaki ang mabibigay na<\/em>\u00a0livelihood assistance\u00a0<em>kung<\/em>\u00a0<em>mag<\/em>-form<em>\u00a0ang ating mga<\/em>\u00a0OFWs ng (Our OFWs would get bigger livelihood assistance if they will form an) association or cooperative. This is for our repatriated OFWs,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Bello said there are more than 250,000 OFWs who have been repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 2 a.m. Thursday, 250,000 plus OFWs, have been repatriated and we are expecting an additional 100,000 to come home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The government is looking at Europe as an alternative market for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were displaced by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":260462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271974","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\/271974","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271987,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271974\/revisions\/271987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}