The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always played a special role in Philippine overseas migration. To-date, it is the largest hirer of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and has the largest Filipino population in the Middle East region. Filipinos make up the fourth largest group of foreigners in Saudi Arabia, accounting for the second largest source of remittances from the Philippines. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, how Philippine migration is closely intertwined with the status

The government of Saudi Arabia, thru its Cabinet, approved a set of regulations that will further promote human rights of migrant workers and penalize human trafficking. The prominent features of the regulations, recommended by the Shoura Council, include penalties against coercion, threats, misuse of position or influence, taking advantage of the workers’ weakness, coercive service, practices similar to slavery. A committee has been formed to monitor known victims of human t

Saudi Arabia has new minimum age requirements for incoming foreign workers. The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Philippines annouced that effective immediately, the age requirements for these occupation are as follows: Domestic helper ..................................................... 21 years Nurse and Flight Attendant .................................... 21 years Dressmaker ........................................................... 30 years Salesman for Textile and Ladie

Saudi Arabia is still the top destination for Filipino workers in 2008. There were 275, 933 workers both new hires and rehires, who were deployed to the Kingdom last year. Saudi Arabia is followed by UAE, which also registered the highest incerease in 2008, compared with the previous year. Total deployments for 2008 was 974, 399, up 20.1% from 2007. #OverseasFilipinoWorkers #ofw #SaudiArabia