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...
Philippines still a top supplier of seafarers
THE SEA-BASED sectorâs remittances comprise at least 22 percent of the total dollar remittances of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), which was recently greatly affected...
Protection for women seafarers under the Magna Carta
FILIPINO seafarers will have to wait again for another administration to have their own Magna Carta.
The consolidated versions of the proposed Magna Carta for Seafarers in...
Company doctorâs incomplete, doubtful assessment in disability benefits cases
A SEAFARER has no obligation to secure the second opinion of his personal doctor if the company doctor issued an incomplete and doubtful assessment.
The...