The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is looking for jobs abroad for the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to DOLE Sec. Silvestre Bello III, they are drafting a bilateral agreement for the Canadian, Russian, Chinese governments, and other governments to create more employment destinations for OFWs.
Bello explained that the bilateral agreement is a formal agreement that sets the guidelines on deployment, protection, and rights of the overseas workers. He said, based on the department’s data, around 702,000 OFWs have been repatriated to the Philippines from the start of the pandemic.
In relation to this, the DOLE chief assured that the government aided not only the repatriated OFWs, but also the OFWs abroad who also lost their jobs.
(PTV News)/NGS-rir
