ILO has approved a grant to support assistance for migrant workers affected by COVID-19 in Samut Sakhon, Thailand
There is no deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) despite the international travel restrictions due to a highly contagious variant of the virus causing COVID-19.
Working from home has long been an important feature of the world of work.
The dramatic increase in working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to address the issues facing homeworkers and their employers, and to pave the way to decent work for all who work from home.
Those working from home, whose number has greatly increased due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, need better protection, says the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new report.
The Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who will be returning home to Mandaue City need not worry about where to be quarantined
Child labour has decreased by 38 per cent in the last decade but 152 million children are still affected. The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably worsened the situation, but joint and decisive action can reverse this trend.
After filing a bill that would authorize the health secretary to issue “vaccine passports” to inoculated Filipino citizens, Senator Grace Poe on Friday urged the Department of Health (DOH) to issue the certificate without any cost to the vaccine beneficiary.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has ordered the Philippines’ top diplomat in Kuwait to block an alleged attempt to pay off the murder of a female Filipino domestic worker with P7.5 million in “blood money,” saying justice matters more
The latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 by the ILO, records massive damage to working time and income, with prospects for a recovery in 2021 slow, uneven and uncertain unless early improvements are supported by human-centred recovery policies.
More than 50,000 overseas Filipino workers have so far been vaccinated against Covid-19, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Thursday.