SECTOR: Social Services
SONA YEAR: 2022
Condense migrant workers handbook to pamphlet
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople approved last June 9 the revised rules and regulations for the recruitment and employment of land-based migrant workers. From 246 sections and 71 pages, the revised rules now have 194 sections and 44 pages. The DMW told VERA Files on July 15 that it has yet to revise the rules for the recruitment and employment of sea-based migrant workers.
- In a July 15 email, Director Maria Bernardine Madamba, chief of staff of the DMW Undersecretary for Licensing and Adjudication Office, said the revised land-based guidelines now contain “all the basics and policies,” because other bureaus under DMW will issue separate operational guidelines on OFW recruitment and employment.
- Madamba said the DMW will produce simplified handbooks for sea-based and land-based OFWs, revising the handbooks produced by the previous administration.