More Capiceños find jobs abroad
Roxas City (23 November) -- More Filipinos are still given access to work overseas despite the deployment ban to Iraq and Lebanon and the slowdown in the processing of work documents to Taiwan.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion announced that for this year, the government is targeting some 1 million Filipinos to be deployed for work overseas.
Capiz Labor and Employment Officer Danny Espinosa disclosed that more Capiceños have been enjoying the overseas job openings.
Espinosa said that most applicants from here are women who are targeting to work as domestic workers abroad.
According to him, since January to November this year, about 199 Capiceños have been deployed as Overseas Filipino Workers, higher by 197 percent compared to the number of OFW deployed covering the same period last year numbering 67.
The record of OFW deployed in the various countries covers only those that were submitted by four registered recruitment agencies here, Espinosa said, stressing that there are other private recruitment agencies operating in the province.
He added that there are Capiceños who have also applied and worked overseas from other recruitment agencies outside Capiz. Secretary Brion disclosed that records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration showed that as of November 20, a total of 991,461 OFWs have been deployed to various jobs abroad, with a shortfall of 8,539 workers. Since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo launched her 10 million jobs in six years in 2004, the one-million OFW deployment target has never been reached. At best, the deployment figures have only come close to meeting the target, Malacañang said. This time, Brion said the one-million deployment target could easily be met as an average of 2,500 to 3,000 Filipinos leave every day for jobs abroad.
(PIA)