A delegation from the Philippines’ Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will be in Australia for a mission to appraise the needs of Australia for skilled workers from 3 to 14 November 2008. They will visit Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Cairns.
The delegation will be headed by Labor Undersecretary Rosalinda Baldoz, former administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and will comprise representatives from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and DOLE officials for international labor affairs and labor studies.
The composition of the delegation brings together officials from a wide range of areas of labor. POEA is the Philippines’ peak agency that regulates the hiring of Filipinos for overseas employment. OWWA provides programs that look after the welfare of expatriate Filipino workers. TESDA sets standards and provides the official certifications for technical skills.
The demand for certain categories of Filipino skilled workers prompted the Philippine Department of Labor to study a systematic and streamlined procedure for providing temporary stay workers for the Australian market, as well as to set into place the programs and services that will look after their welfare.
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