OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide

OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide

DAVAO CITY — Unlike most overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in December last year. She was among the 6,468 thousand overseas Filipinos laid-off in Taiwan after 95 Taiwanese companies were forced to trim down their workers as an effect of the global financial crisis.

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