overseas employment

HB 387 further exacerbates labor export

Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Luz Ilagan criticized House Bill 387, also known as the OFW Liberalization Act of 2007, saying that it exacerbates further Arroyo's labor export program by making it a permanent policy.
 
“The government wants to intensify its efforts in exporting our people instead of generating domestic employment in the economy. With HB 387, government will let go all pretensions with regard to the protection and promotion of the rights of overseas Filipino workers,” Ilagan said.
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New Labor-Export Policy Commodifies Filipinos

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Bulatlat.com

Ilagan believes that recruitment agencies are one of the most lucrative businesses in the Philippines and that it would be impossible for the government to regulate the payments that they would charge on OFWs.  read more »

“If they will liberalize and hasten the process, there is a possibility that they will charge more,” Ilagan said. She added that recruitment agencies would only implement this on official fees charged to OFWs.

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