About 1,264 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be employed in Jordan as the Middle Eastern country reopens its economy.
About 90 percent of them will be hired as household services workers (HSWs), a key official at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO)-Jordan.
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Labor Attaché Armin Evangel Peña said, “Of the number, 725 are new hires while balik-manggagawa (returning workers) are 539,”
There is a proposal to increase the salary of HSWs from the current US$400 (about PhP22,000) to US$600 (about PhP31,000), Peña added.
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The PRAs (Philippine Recruitment Agencies) are also pushing for across-the-board salary increase here in the Middle East, Peña said.
From this month, Jordan no longer requires RTPCR test results from fully vaccinated arrivals while those who are not vaccinated may be deported or fined.
