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Showing posts with label OFW maltreatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OFW maltreatment. Show all posts

Friday, October 01, 2021

Deployment ban sa Saudi, muling pinag-aaralan dahil sa kaso ng maltreatment





MANILA, Philippines — MULING pinag-aaralan ngayon ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas ang pagpapatupad ng suspension sa deployment ng mga overseas Filipio workers o OFWs sa Saudi Arabia dahil sa panibagong insidente ng pangmamaltrato.

Ayon kay Department of Labor and Employment o DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, nagkaroon ng proposal para sa deployment ban dahil sa kaso ng isang retied Saudi general na inakusahan ng pagmamaltrato sa isang Filipino domestic helpers.

Sinabi ni Bello na sa ngayon, hinihintay nila ang rekomendasyon ng ni Philippine Overseas Employment Administration administrator Bernard Olalia kung magpapatupad ng deployment ban o hindi.

"Bilang safeguard sa ating mga OFWs, pinag-aaralan ko na huwag muna tayong mag-deploy hangga't hindi sila nagpapakita, lalong-lalo na ang pamahalaan ng KSA, na handa nilang proteksiyonan ang mga OFWs," pahayag ni Bello.


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Sa ulat na natanggap ng DOLE, may 16 na mga OFWs na nagtatrabaho sa nabanggit na retired military na nakilalang si Ayed Thawah Al Jealid. Ang nasabing mga OFWs ay nagrereklamo ng physical abuse at hindi nabayarang sweldo simula 2019.

Noong Mayo, ipina-alam sa Philippine Overseas Labor Office o POLO na nag-isyu ng exit visa ang employer para kay Annaliza Parayno, isa sa mga OFW na nagtatrabaho sa retired general. Ipina-alam din sa kanila na itu-turn-over si Parayno sa POLO sa buwan ng Hunyo.

Ngunit hindi umano nadala sa POLO ang OFW na si Parayno gaya ng napagkasunduan.

Noong Hulyo naman, humingi na ng tulong ang POLO sa Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development upang mapilit ang retired general na maturn-over sa POLO ang mga OFWs.


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Ngunit buwan ng Agosto na umano nito itinurn-over sa POLO ang limang OFWs sa iba't-ibang petsa at napauwi sa Pilipinas ang mga ito noong Setyembre.

Dagdag pa ni Bello na sa ngayon, patuloy ang pakikipag-negosasyon ng Pilipinas sa nabanggit na heneral upang makuha ang dalawang OFWs.

Matatandaan na noong Mayo, nagpatupad ng deployment ban ang DOLE sa Saudi Arabia dahil sa mga report na nire-require ng mga employers o foreign recruitment agencies ang mga OFWs bayaran ang kanilang Covid-19 health and safety protocols.



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Monday, October 02, 2017

House Committee Proposed a Temporary Ban of OFWs to Kuwait

Last week, the committee approved the motion of Quezon City Rep. Winston Castelo for a moratorium after receiving cases of distressed household service workers (HSW) in Kuwait.  The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Foreign Affairs will be mandated to implement the ban.  Read: 500 OFWs Resigned In Kuwait Over Non-payment Of Wages For Eight Months

Due to increasing cases of maltreatment and abuse of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs is proposing to implement a temporary ban on the deployment of OFWs to Kuwait.
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Last week, the committee approved the motion of Quezon City Rep. Winston Castelo for a moratorium after receiving cases of distressed household service workers (HSW) in Kuwait.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Foreign Affairs will be mandated to implement the ban.

Read: 500 OFWs Resigned In Kuwait Over Non-payment Of Wages For Eight Months



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If the deployment ban will be enforced, it could be lifted once the welfare and the protection of OFWs in Kuwait are secured.

January this year, the DOLE said it was studying for the possible implementation of a moratorium on the deployment of OFWs to Kuwait, following the execution of Filipina worker.

Read: Steps in Calculating Indemnity and Leave Balance Payment in Kuwait

Also ACTS OFW Party-list Rep. Aniceto Bertiz III earlier filed House Resolution No. 558, which seeks an investigation into the “repeated demand of Filipino organizations in Kuwait for a ban or moratorium on HSW deployment."

Kuwait is number 4 in Top 10 OFW Destination last 2016, giving 3, 456 job order last year to Filipinos. In-demand jobs in Kuwait for OFWs are waiter/waitress, barrista, cook, and many others.

Read: Kuwait Intensifies Crackdown Against Homosexuals



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