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Published July 6, 2021, 10:36 AM
The Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been directed to go after the owner of a foreign recruitment firm who allegedly raped a Filipina overseas worker, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Tuesday, July 6.
(File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting)
In his urgent memorandum to Labor Attaché Fidel Macauyag, DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III instructed the POLO to work with authorities there for immediate legal action on the case.
“I will do everything possible to help our OFW [overseas Filipino worker] fight back against her tormentors,” Bello said in a statement.
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How much does it cost every year to address and resolve maltreatment of Filipino women, mostly employed as domestic helpers, in the Middle East?
More likely than not, this perplexing question will be glossed over by labor officials in favor of the multi-billion US dollars that Filipino workers generate across the Middle East and which they pump into the country’s economy by way of remittances to their loved ones back home.
In the meantime, deployment of Filipino women to that region continues to be bedeviled by numerous problems. Despite the obvious advantages, it defies logic and reason why labor officials have not seen fit to conduct a critical review of the situation and scale down, if necessary, further deployments of more Filipino women to that region.
(Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sunday, July 4, calling the Philippines’ achievement “historic”. “This marks a significant shift in the policy-making global tripartite body that has been traditionally led by big, powerful member-countries,” DOLE said. The ILO is a United Nations (UN) agency mandated to advance social and economic justice through setting international labor standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialized agency of the UN.
DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting) In a report to DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Geneva said the Philippines formally took over the post last week after completing its vice chairmanship tenure.
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