The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to pay PHP4.6 billion in unpaid salaries to 9,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were forced to return home after they stopped receiving remuneration. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III is optimistic the payment will be made when KSA counterpart Ahmed Al-Rajhi visits the country in December this year. “The unpaid salaries of our OFWs can be settled just in time for Christmas,” Bello said in a news release on Sunday. Bello was in KSA last week to attend the Sixth Ministerial Consultation of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD), a

The Department of Labor and Employment cautioned Filipinos seeking overseas employment to be wary of job offers online. The warning issued Sunday came after the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Madrid, Spain received a request to verify an online job offer for a fruit farm cashier position with a salary of 3,000 to 6,000 euros, or equivalent to PHP175,000 to PHP350,000. POLO Madrid Labor Attaché Joan Lourdes Lavilla advised job seekers to be careful in entertaining “too good to be true” job opportunities abroad. “We advise jobseekers to be very cautious. Scammers use names of legitimate companies and when