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GIVE FILIPINOS PRIORITY IN JOB MARKET – GATCHALIAN

Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the government to protect and promote the interest of unemployed Filipino workers by providing them with new stable jobs before opening the job market to foreigners. Before giving any preferential treatment to foreign workers in the government’s flagship projects, Gatchalian called on the government to carefully consider hiring unemployed Filipinos, […]

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ADDRESS PROBLEM WITH ILLEGAL FOREIGN WORKERS – VILLANUEVA

The unabated influx of illegal foreign workers in the country is hampering efforts by law enforcement agencies to curb crimes committed by foreigners in the past weeks, Senator Joel Villanueva said. The raid on an alleged prostitution den by the Makati City Police recently, the latest bust on criminal activities perpetrated by foreigners, is a […]

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2019 NAT’L BUDGET BANS BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION FROM ISSUING SPECIAL WORKING PERMITS TO ALIENS – VILLANUEVA

There is a special provision in the proposed 2019 national budget that prohibits the Bureau of Immigration from issuing special work permits to aliens amid the influx of illegal foreign workers in the country, Senator Joel Villanueva said. In an ambush interview following the Senate hearing on the rise of foreign illegal workers in the […]