Government stand on insurance policy for OFWs won’t lessen job hiring
By Mina Diaz 05/26/2011The claim of some recruitment industry leaders that Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia may lose their jobs on account of the government remaining firm of its stand for better welfare and protection of household service workers is totally without basis, Acting Labor Secretary Lourdes Trasmonte said yesterday.
This is the reaction of the DoLE regarding on the report that Saudi Arabian employers could be pressured by their government to stop hiring Filipinos or not renew existing contracts because of the alleged impasse between Saudi Arabia and the Philippines over the hiring of household service workers, Trasmonte said, adding that there is a “disconnect” between the two and therefore misreading the real situation.
“There is no ‘continuing disagreement’ as alleged by the report,” she said. “What is there is an agreement of the Saudi Arabia-Philippines Joint Technical Committee to meet regularly to discuss mutual concerns, including the welfare and protection of household service workers in the Kingdom,” Trasmonte said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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