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Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020.
The Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) tend to be young and gender-balanced. Based on a survey conducted in 2011, the demographics indicate how the 24-29 age group constitutes 24 percent of the total and is followed by the 30-34 age group (23 percent) working abroad. [ 23 ]
Aside from countries experiencing problems with peace and order, the Philippine government can also restrict deployment of Filipino workers to countries determined by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs to be non-compliant to the Republic Act 10022 also known as Amended Migrant Workers Act.
President Duterte signing Republic Act No. 11641 or the Act Creating the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on December 30, 2021. On July 12, 2019, during the Araw ng Pasasalamat for OFWs (Thanksgiving day for the Overseas Filipino Workers), President Duterte in a speech promised to finish the framework for the creation of a department that caters to the need of OFWs.
An Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC), also known as an exit pass or an exit clearance, [2] is an identity document for Filipino migrant workers or Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) departing from the Philippines.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (abbreviated as OWWA, Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Kagalingan ng Manggagawa sa Ibayong-dagat [2]) is an attached agency of the Department of Migrant Workers of the Philippines.
Among the Filipino migrants, there is a significant amount of migrants that are Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). [3] One of the recent trends in Filipino contractual workers Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine is that as years pass by, more and more women have traveled out of the country, outnumbering the men.
For individual Overseas Filipino Workers, see Category:Filipino migrant workers. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. F.