2017

• UAE healthcare firm reveals major push into Saudi Arabia
• Filipinos in UAE to benefit from new migrant workers law
• Qatar enacts law to protect foreign domestic workers
• DFA Opens Thousands of Appointment Slots for Passport Application and Renewal
• OFW remittances up 5.5% to $2.3B in May
• ID for OFWs launched today
• DOLE scraps OEC, replaces it with OFW ID
• PHL lifts deployment suspension, allows new hires to go to Qatar
• Gulf countries cut ties with Qatar
• Direct hiring of OFWs allowed again as DOLE lifts suspension