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Published April 30, 2021, 4:00 PM
CEBU CITY – The National Bureau of Investigation-Central Visayas (NBI Region 7) arrested a woman who allegedly duped several people through various scams.
Juvelyn de los Trico, of Lower Nivel Hills, Barangay Lahug, this city, was arrested in an entrapment operation inside a mall last Tuesday.
The NBI Region 7 said the suspect had divested at least P200,000 from her supposed victims.
Being a former co-worker in a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company, Sheena Faustino, one of the complainants, said she trusted the suspect when she offered her a job as a customer service representative in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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LABOR OFFICIALS told Congress that mandatory insurance for overseas workers should only apply to agency hires for now, citing the need to clear up some legal and budgetary hurdles before such a policy is legislated.
At a House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs hearing Thursday, the administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Bernard P. Olalia, said amendments are needed to current law before insurance payments can be required of some classes of overseas workers like direct hires and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) employed under government-to-government agreements.
“We recognize that only agency hires shall be subjected to the mandatory insurance coverage,” he said in the hearing, adding that labor officials have long sought the amendment of Republic Act 10022, or the Migrant Workers Act of 1995, in order to expand the types of OFW subject to compulsory welfare insurance.
The Meghalaya government on Friday launched the online registration portal for migrant workers under the Meghalaya Identification Registration (Safety and Security) of Migrant Workers Act 2020.
The legislation passed in March last year ensures the maintenance of public order and protection and safety of migrant workers in Meghalaya through identification and mandatory registration of all such workers in the northeastern state.
Meghalaya deputy chief minister P. Tynsong, who launched the portal at a function organised by the state labour department in Shillong, said the authority for issuing labour licences now lies with the state government under the act.
Registration of workers, maintaining their proper records and issuance of identity cards to them are also mandatory under the act.
Labor Attaché (Labatt) Nasser Mustafa
(Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Riyadh)
This came after an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) couple filed a complaint against Mustafa last year before the Philippine Embassy for acts of lasciviousness and sexual harassment that reportedly occurred in the morning of Feb. 13, 2020 inside the labor attache’s office in Riyadh when she was following up some job orders on behalf of her sponsor.
On Oct. 14, the couple directed the Philippine Embassy to seek assistance after sensing that their jobs were already at stake due to the alleged pressure being employed by Mustafa’s office against their employers and sponsors. But the labor attaché, in turn, charged the nationals with cyberlibel.