Tag: DFO

VILLAFUERTE TO SENATE: PASS BILL ON DEPARTMENT OF OFW

Post author By Hazel Chua
Post date June 29, 2020
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Deputy Speaker LRay Villafuerte has proposed twin measures for the long-term benefit of the country’s 10 million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), quite a number of whom remain stranded in Metro Manila or in their host-countries because of the failure of the concerned agencies to repatriate them at once in the midst of the coronavirus-induced health […]

Tags COVID-19, Department of Filipinos Overseas and Foreign Employment, Deputy Speaker Villafuerte, DFO, OFWs, repatriation

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HOUSE APPROVES CREATION OF OFW DEPARTMENT – SPEAKER CAYETANO

Post author By Mario Sineneng
Post date March 13, 2020
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The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill creating the Department of Filipinos Overseas and Foreign Employment (DFO). With 173 affirmative votes, 11 negative votes, and no abstention, the chamber passed House Bill 5832, which seeks to create a new department that shall be the primary agency tasked to protect […]

Tags Department of Filipinos Overseas and Foreign Employment, DFO, OFWs, Speaker Cayetano