DMW sets initiatives to ensure migrant domestic workers’ safety

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An overseas Filipino worker has her temperature taken prior to checking in at the counters of the NAIA-1 departure area yesterday(May 29, 2021).

Krizjohn Rosales, file

 

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is working on imposing stricter initiatives to ensure the safety of Overseas Filiino Workers (OFWs), especially guidelines on domestics workers, such as creating a “white list” of recruitment agencies.

 

DMW Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople also said that the department wants to take a “rights-based” approach in their securing their welfare. The department also tasked the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices to review its current and create new verification guidelines for OFWs.

 

Some of the initiatives the DMW is taking for the recruitment agencies and employers include:

 

• Establishing a “white list” of recruitment agencies and foreign recruitment agencies that have consistently followed rules on ethical recruitment and principles
• Conducting a performance review and assessment based on their deployment numbers and capacity to monitor and respond to welfare cases of the licensed recruitment agencies and their foreign counterparts.
• Issuance of country-specific employment contracts that would reflect current labor laws, migration policies, and if there is one, the contents of bilateral labor agreements with the destination country.
• Required video presentation viewing that discusses OFW rights and welfare for all new employers before any document is signed.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/18/2203532/dmw-sets-initiatives-ensure-migrant-domestic-workers-safety

 

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