Remains of OFW In Alleged Suicide in Saudi Arabia Arrived Home

Nobody wishes to work abroad and came back home inside the box. But this sad thing is happening to some of our "modern day heroes", just like Jenny Reyes, the OFW who work abroad to help her husband and children but died too soon.

Her grieving family welcomes her remains that arrived in the Philippines last October 11.

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Jenny took suicide last May 28, 2017, according to her employer. She fell from the seventh floor flat of her employer in Jeddah. Jenny had been working in Saudi Arabia for only two weeks when the incident happened.

According to his husband, John Paul Reyes, that until now, they don't believe his wife committed suicide because her things fell with her from the seventh floor.

"Feeling po namin patay na po siya, hinulog po siya dun kasi sabi ng mga kalapit kwarto niya dun may naamoy na daw po sila sa labas ng bahay na may kakaiba daw po," Reyes said.

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But according to Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Hans Cacdac, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has ruled out the possibility of foul play in Jenny's death.

He said the family can request for the autopsy to the remains to know the reason of her death.

With this, Cacdac said, the family can file a case against Jenny's employer and her employment agency and they can tap the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

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OWWA already gave assistance to the family of the victim but they are hoping the agency would help in the investigation.

In GMA's News dated June 28, 2017, it was stated that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has ordered the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh to conduct its own investigation into Jenny's death.

"Embassy lawyers are now investigating the case with police and forensic investigators and looking into all angles of the case," the DFA stated.


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Every OFW Sent Abroad Must Be Monitored By Recruitment Agency

"Make sure to monitor the welfare and protection of every Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) you deploy abroad." This is the word of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac to recruitment agencies.

Cacdac noted that recruitment agencies must respect human and employment rights, as well as ethical recruitment processes prior to worker's deployment.

“People are recruited out of poverty, not because of their skills, not because they have been properly matched,” said Cacdac.

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This is after the Philippines broke the 2-million mark last year with 2,112,331 workers. With this, 80 percent are land-based while 20 percent are sea-based.

Saudi Arabia is still the number one destination for Filipino migrant workers, followed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Singapore, Qatar and Hong Kong.

With this number 47 percent of this are household service workers.


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Cacdac said there must be tighter regulations in terms of looking into how domestic workers are interviewed, qualified, trained, informed, and deployed.

He said obligation of recruitment agencies to monitor workers is in the rules and regulation of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for the last 25 years.

The OWWA chief cited as an example a household service worker who Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello visited in Saudi Arabia last year. He said the OFW was badly beaten and brought to a hospital in a coma. She passed away about a week after the visit, Cacdac said.

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“But she was a worker who only had been in Saudi for three weeks, and then that happened. Now, if the recruiter, in this case, would simply monitor or had monitored her from the time she arrived, then we could have saved her life,” Cacdac said.

The recruiter, he said, was initially penalized with a yearlong suspension. Its license was eventually canceled.

The governing board passed a rule that directs every recruitment agency to have a welfare desk and a welfare officer assigned to monitor OFWs it had deployed.

He also highlighted the need for an effective coordination with foreign counterparts of recruitment agencies.

“The saddest thing to hear is when you ask a recruitment agency to step in and help in the rescue effort of an OFW trapped in an employer’s household, the recruitment agency would say, ‘wala eh, sinusungitan kami nung Saudi counterpart namin eh!’ But who brought in the Saudi counterpart in the picture in the first place? Kayo rin di ba? Partner niyo 'yun eh!” Cacdac said.

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OFW Pre-Departure Orientation Program Now Back to POEA, DOLE Wants to Abolish It

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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) approves the transfer of OFW-Pre-Departure Orientation Program (PDOS) to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) from their agency.

The move was done by OWWA Board of Trustees base of OWW Resolution Number 30 dated August 10, 2017

In his Twitter Account, OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said, POEA as a regulatory agency is more suited to ensure the compliance of PDOS to OFWs as regulation.

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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) approves the transfer of OFW-Pre-Departure Orientation Program (PDOS) to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) from their agency.

The move was done by OWWA Board of Trustees base of OWW Resolution Number 30 dated August 10, 2017.

In his Twitter Account, OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said, POEA as a regulatory agency is more suited to ensure the compliance of PDOS to OFWs as regulation.

The OWWA Board of Trustees approves the return of the OFW Pre-Departure Orientation Program to the POEA. pic.twitter.com/3Ag70J93t1

— hans leo j. cacdac (@HansLeoCacdac) August 31, 2017

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Cacdac added that the OWWA will focus on mandatory financial literacy seminars for OFWs.

Among the topics included in the PDOS are the cultural differences in other countries, do's and don'ts abroad, health and safety tips, government services, and the rights and responsibilities of an OFW.

However, the Department of Labor and Employment is eyeing the cancellation of the mandatory Pre-Departure Orientation Seminars (PDOS).

According to DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, he is looking for possibilities that seminar as a requirement for first time OFWs will be made at the level of recruitment agencies.

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