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5,000 new jobs are going to be made available to Filipinos in Singapore’s island resort of Sentosa. This was announced yesterday by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as she spoke at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

PGMA said that Labor Secretary Marianito Roque was able to secure 5,000 job openings in Sentosa. “We’ve lost 5,000 jobs abroad, but Secretary Roque was able to get openings in Sentosa for 5,000 jobs,” PGMA said.

At the event in the SMX, SM Group of Companies executive Teresita Sy-Coson lauded PGMA for the fiscal policies she implemented and said that they have insulated the Philippines from the global economic crisis.

The Resorts World at Sentosa Private Ltd. Has announced also that they would be hiring approximately 20,000 people by the middle of the year.

More than 100,000 jobs for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are available. This was confirmed in the 1st RP-Qatar Joint Committee Meeting in Bohol recently when labor officials from the Philippines and Qatar convened the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported in April 1.

Aside from the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the RP-Qatar Agreement Concerning Filipino Manpower Employment in Qatar, which the two countries discussed, Labor and Employment Secretary Marianito D. Roque the two delegations from the Philippines and Qatar also discussed the employment prospects for OFWs in Qatar. He said Qatar approved a total of 296,787 work visas for OFWs between October 2008 to March 2009 out of which about 190,000 were already filled up, indicating that over 100,000 work visas are still available for OFWs. The DOLE Chief said that about 85 % of the available jobs for OFWs in the Qatar requires technical and highly-skilled workers in the construction sector.

Below is the schedule of the Jobs Fair for the month of April 2009:

Date: April 1
Venue: SM Valenzuela Activity Center, Mac Arthur Highway, Karuhatan Valenzuela

Date: April 2 to 3
Venue: Camarines Norte Agro Sports Center, Provincial Capitol, Daet, Camarines Norte

Date: April 3
Venues: SM Valenzuela Activity Center, Mac Arthur Highway, Karuhatan Valenzuela and Bongabon Central School Gym, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija

Date: April 16
Venue: Municipal Plaza, Rizal, Laguna

Date: April 22
Venue: Municipal Hall, Rizal, Nueva Ecija

Date: April 25
Venue: Municipal Hall, Manaoag, Pangasinan

Date: April 30
Venue: 3rd Floor., Bazaar Area, SM City Lucena

BDO recently pledged P1 million to the Philippine Overseas and Employment Administration (POEA) which serves as the bank’s deed of donation to support the agency in the execution of its OFW programs.

In recent years, BDO has been actively participating in the programs and other events organized by the POEA. Aside from offering convenient and reliable remittance service, BDO has been giving them easier access to BDO loans and investment opportunities through its Asenso Kabayan Program.

Here are some things you should know if you want to work in Canada:

Who determines if you are eligible? Well, it is the employer who helps determine if one is eligible. The employer may need to secure a labor market opinion from Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC). This confirms that the employer can fill the job with a foreign worker.

To work in Canada, a person must meet the general requirements for entering the country and for staying there, in addition to the requirements for getting a work permit. This means that one may need a temporary resident visa.

Be informed that a work permit is not an immigration document. It does not allow a person to live permanently in Canada. If one want to live in Canada permanently, he or she must qualify under an immigration category, such as skilled worker. Live-in caregivers can stay in Canada permanently if they meet certain requirements.

If one wants their spouse or common-law partner and their dependent children to come with them to Canada, he or she must apply to do so.

More information to come about these topics discussed.

Do you plan on working temporarily in Canada? Here are some information about this. First of all, it is important to note some who work in Canada temporarily require a work permit and some do not. There are also some types of work, depending on their category, that get faster approval. The requirements and processing time also depend on the type of work a person has when he or she comes to Canada.

Although there are jobs that won’t require a work permit, be advised that there may be other requirements for the job that need to be met.

The two categories that will be further discussed in upcoming posts are coming to Canada as a business visitor and coming to Canada as a business person. These two are different. Subscribe to this site’s feeds to learn more from upcoming entries.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) posted an advisory in their website advising the public to be wary of an illegal recruitment practice inviting Filipino students to go to London on a student visa. The recruiters were Filipinos based in London who promised them jobs in nursing homes for twenty (20) hours with pay as part of the curriculum.

According to the reports from the Philippine Embassy in London, 34 Filipino students have been victimized by these said recruiters. Police authorities raided the school for failure to open the courses promised to the students.

The students are supposed to be attending the London School of Health & Management Studies (LSHMS) after payment of the amount of 2,500 – 3,500 British Pounds or some US$5,000 – US$7,000 for tuition and student visa fees. The victims also paid additional 150 British Pounds for transportation expenses upon arrival in the United Kingdom.

Please pass this information on to your friends who are looking for POEA jobs abroad so they can be guided and warned accordingly.

AN ACT TO STRENGTHEN THE REGULATORY FUNCTIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT ADMINISTRATION (POEA), AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8042, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “MIGRANT WORKERS AND OVERSEAS FILIPINOS ACT OF 1995″

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Section 23, paragraph (b.1)o f Republic Act No. 8042, otherwise known as the “Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995″ is hereby amended to read as follows: Read the rest of this entry »