A handful of overseas Filipino workers who were brought home from Israel due to the conflict there are now finding their footing again — this time through hotel jobs in Croatia arranged under a government-to-government labor agreement.
One of these repatriated workers was deployed to Croatia on March 28, 2026. Five more are set to follow today, among them another repatriated OFW from Israel and one worker who had recently finished a contract there. All are headed to Croatian hotels as room attendants, earning between 1,050 and 1,390 Euros a month.
Another four applicants, also repatriated from Israel in 2023 and 2024, have already signed employment contracts and are currently completing visa requirements ahead of their own deployment to Croatia.
The placements trace back to a recruitment drive held in October 2025 by the Department of Migrant Workers’ Pre-employment and Government Placement Bureau, which targeted hotel workers bound for Croatia. That activity was made possible by a bilateral labor cooperation agreement signed on October 4, 2024, in Zagreb between DMW Secretary Hans Leo J. Cacdac and Croatian Minister of Labour, Pension System, Family, and Social Policy Marin Piletić.
The G2G arrangement is framed by the DMW as part of its mandate to secure safe and ethical employment pathways for Filipino workers abroad.
