The current cosmetic changes in the country’s labor export policy will not provide due protection to Filipino workers overseas. Worse, this will only exacerbate the already dire conditions they are facing.
Susan “Toots” Ople has been at it for decades, championing the rights and welfare of overseas working Filipinos. Thus, her confirmation last month as the first secretary of the newly minted Department of Migrant Workers is a fitting recognition of her commitment.
“If anyone is to be chosen for the job as DMW secretary in the labor sector, the choice is none other than Susan Ople.”
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, concurrent Commission on Appointments (CA) chairman, stressed this at the confirmation hearing of Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretar
The congressional Commission on Appointments has greenlighted the appointment of Susan “Toots” Ople as the country’s first Department of Migrant Workers secretary.
The Commission on Appointments yesterday confirmed lawyer Gamaliel Cordoba as chairman of the Commission on Audit and Susana Ople as Secretary of the newly created Department of Migrant Workers.