Taiwan still hiring Filipino workersDe Vera, Ben Arnold O
MANILA (AP) -- Philippine recruiting industry leaders said yesterday that Filipinos may lose up to 20,000 jobs in Taiwan this year because of the extension of a ban on hiring Filipino workers and an unresolved aviation dispute, a group representing job recruiters said Wednesday. In Taipei, Wu...
Brokerage fees are not the main cause for escaping. That's an erroneous assumption. Over half of the workers that run away are caretakers. Many workers flee in hopes of finding better-paying jobs. But after running away, many end up realizing that the promises of higher wages were all li...
The pandemic further opened some space for migrant care workers to pursue labor market mobility. The strict border controls related to Covid-19 have disrupted the entry both of newly hired migrant workers and of those who returned home for vacation. The labor shortage is even more serious in t...