{"id":275032,"date":"2020-11-11T22:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=275032"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:46:31","slug":"payments-coming-in-to-hotels-accommodating-ofws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/11\/payments-coming-in-to-hotels-accommodating-ofws\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments coming in to hotels accommodating OFWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249076\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249076\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apartment-bed-bedroom-contemporary-271672-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA) on Wednesday confirmed that some hotels have received payments from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA) on Wednesday confirmed that some hotels have received payments from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Payments are coming in to some hotels. We appreciate the commitment by OWWA through Administrator Atty. Hans Leo Cacdac, (Deputy Administrator) Judge (Rodrigo) Pascua and Director of Finance Hermie Mendoza,&#8221; the group said in a statement. &#8220;We are allowing the process to take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The HSMA earlier revealed that OWWA owes some PHP241.17 million to about 20 hotels currently accommodating overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) under quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III ordered OWWA to settle its unpaid bills within seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The HSMA has around 150 member hotels, 70 percent of which are operating as quarantine facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA) on Wednesday confirmed that some hotels have received payments from the Overseas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275032","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=275032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275033,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275032\/revisions\/275033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}