DOLE: Exclude execution bond in Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers
THE MAGNA Carta for Filipino seafarers failed to consider recommendation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on the exclusion of labor dispute...
29th National Seafarers Day and 25th National Maritime Week
THE PHILIPPINES will be celebrating the 29Th National Seafarers Day (NSD) and the 25th National Maritime Week (NMW) this year on September 29, 2024 with...
Honoring Filipino seafarers, reservists and the Philippine Flag
âITAAS mo ang iyong tinig sa panunumpa! Dahil ang pagpupugay sa bandila ay pagmamahal sa bansa.â
Thus declared Kapuso actor and Major Jose Sixto âDingdongâ Dantes as...
Watered down magna carta for Filipino seafarers
âFAIRNESS and social justice demand that we give them all that they are due â as a Filipino seafarer who sacrificed and as a...
Raise the flag for Filipino seafarers!
A SPECIAL flag-raising ceremony was held on June 25, 2024 at the Rizal Monument in Luneta in celebration of the Day of the Seafarers in honor of all the hard...
Galleon trade sailors as first Filipino settlers in the USÂ
ONE OF the first Filipino settlers in the United States were seafaring people who arrived as sailors and navigators on board Spanish ships during the Galleon...
Seafarerâs right to shore leave
THE EMPLOYMENT relationship with the employer does not stop but continues to be in force even when the seafarer is on shore leave (Susana...
ICMA and familiarization of the culture of Filipino seafarers
UNLIKE land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a Filipino seafarer is required to make an allotment which shall be at least 80 percent of the...
Bar exam question on seafarerâs disability benefits claims
CAN A seafarer be entitled to compensation for disability benefits if he finished his employment contract?
This is one of the questions included in the 2022 Bar...
The seafarersâ votes and the party-list system
THE NUMBER of registered voters of the sea-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has been decreasing for the past three elections, putting again into test the impact of...