IRR approval firms up functions, structure of Department of Migrant Workers

This April 2, 2020 photo shows overseas Filipino workers who returned to the country and are set to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine.

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MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the implementing rules and regulations for the law creating the Department of Migrant Workers, which will consolidate agencies related to overseas labor and bring their services to regions outside Metro Manila.

Duterte signed Republic Act 11641, which provides for the establishment of the department, into law last December.  

“Nanduduon sa IRR iyong mga istruktura, yung organizations, yung mechanisms kung paano patuloy na tutulungan natin ang ating mga OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) na na-deploy papunta abroad, kung paano natin po-proteksyonan ‘yung kanilang mga karapatan at kung paano namin ipo-promote ‘yung kanilang welfare,” Philippine Overseas Employment Administration head Bernard Olalia said in a televised interview on Thursday.

(The IRR contains the structures, the organization, the mechanisms on how we can continue to help our OFWs who have been deployed abroad, how we can protect their rights, and how we can promote their welfare.)

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