Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said that Taiwan plans to hire some 20,000 Filipino workers before the end of this year.
Apart from Taiwan, Ople said that Germany and Singapore are also looking for Filipino professionals to work in the IT sector and healthcare field.
“The good news is that Facebook Singapore is actually hiring Filipino workers. For the first time, Facebook has requested for accreditation as an employer which speaks a lot about the excellence of our Filipino IT professionals and Grab Singapore, another multinational brand, is also keen on hiring from us,” Ople said in a briefing in Indonesia.
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She added that the Ministry of Singapore also expressed interest in hiring more health workers.
“The MOH has reached out to us and has expressed their desire to explore ways of recruiting or hiring more of our healthcare for employment in Singapore. Through a possibly, hindi pa kasi sarado yung talks and yung pipirmahan namin na document but possibly through a government-to-government arrangement,” Ople added.
Germany also announces that it will be hiring 600 nurses under the Triple Win Project with the Philippine government.
