Starting November 08, 2010, all private recruitment agencies in the Philippines will have to buy insurance for all the workers they deploy to any country in the world. The insurance requirement is part of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Republic Act 8042 as amended by R...

AMI Saudi Arabia, one of the biggest healthcare companies in the Middle East, is looking for more male nurses for their facilities in Saudi Arabia. Representatives of the company are slated to conduct interviews in the Abba office on November 22. Only those who pass Ab...

A 500-bed hospital in Abu Dhabi will visit Abba in the first week of December. The hospital, a government facility, offers topnotch salaries, generous housing allowances, educational allowances, family status, and a host of other benefits.

They are looking for Registere...

(Excerpts from the Q and A session among VHR’s in-process  candidates and  Tom Nichols, President of VHR, in August 2009)

Q1: We have heard that retrogression will take another 3-5 years before it is lifted . Is this true?

A: Not likely. Waiting for 3 to 5 yea...

There are 37, 000 plus new registered nurses in the Philippines. The country's PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) announced that out of 91, 008 examinees who took the NLE for 2 days last July, 37, 679 passed, or 41.4% of the examinees. The two-day exams, conducte...

Representative of the Al Rahba Hospital are set to visit the Abba office to interview applicant for their nurse vacancies. The 142 bed facility, located in the suburbs of Abu Dhabi, is a government hospital and offers one of the highest compensation packages in the Mid...

Abba comes out with an advertisement (click) on the June 27 issue of the Sunday Bulletin showing at least 90 vacancies from among its 20 current clients.

The advertisement calls for various applicants, in Nursing, Allied Medical and Non - Medical positions.

Abba prescree...

Membership to Pag- Ibig Fund has become mandatory for Overseas Filipino Workers. The Fund, which offers housing loans to its members, was previously required only of Philippine based workers, and optional to OFW's.

Starting July 1, the POEA will only issue Overseas Empl...

Representatives of the NGHA(National Guard Health Affairs) of Saudi Arabia are set to visit the Abba office during the 2nd week of March. NGHA is the umbrella organization for all four hospitals of Saudi Arabia's National Guard. NGHA is known for making the unique offe...

The 3 top destinations for Filipino workers in 2009 were Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, and Hong Kong. Figures from the POEA show that for the year, 1, 092, 162 were deployed by the Philippines to various destinations. Of the total 291, 419 workers or 26.7% went to Saudi Arabia.

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