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Overseas Filipino Workers
he government will entice overseas Filipino
workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and
Qatar to return home for a chance to get
employed locally or elsewhere overseas.
This is what the labor department intends
to do with the establishment of a Job Fair
Task Force that will conduct a special job fair
and skills profiling of OFWs based in KSA and Qatar.
In an administrative order issued by Labor Secretary
Silvestre Bello III, the supply-demand profiling and skills-
job matching will be jointly conducted by the Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and
Bureau of Local Employment (BLE).
Concerned Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO)
in the identified countries will do the preliminary
skills profiling of the OFWs in coordination with the
International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB).
Through the joint undertaking, POEA and BLE will
conduct employers’ forum and gather the number of
vacancies, skills requirement, geographical location
(local or overseas), as well as determine the companies
interested to join the Job Fair.
Also, POEA and BLE shall process the supply and
demand profile and come up with labor market
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information that will serve as a guide for matching of
available skills and employer demand for workers.
OFWs that require further upgrading of skills
requirements of the participating employers will
be referred to the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) for training prior to their
deployment whether local or overseas.
Meanwhile, the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA) will provide the welfare
assistance during the conduct of job fairs and which may
lead to the repatriation of distressed OFWs.
The said tasked group is headed by DOLE
Undersecretary Claro Arellano who is in charge of DOLE’s
Legal and International Affairs, and is co-chaired by OWWA.
The members include POEA, BLE, ILAB, and the Philippine
Overseas Labor Office in KSA and Qatar.
owwa.gov.ph
In an administrative order issued by Labor
Secretary Silvestre Bello III, the supply-
demand profiling and skills-job matching
will be jointly conducted by the Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA) and Bureau of Local Employment
(BLE).