{"id":222809,"date":"2019-07-14T05:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222809"},"modified":"2019-07-14T05:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:05:04","slug":"prrd-wants-department-of-ofws-by-yearend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/14\/prrd-wants-department-of-ofws-by-yearend\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD wants Department of OFWs by yearend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219639\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219639\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF27.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF27-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during his visit to Camp General Vicente Lukban in Catbalogan City, Samar on June 19, 2019. ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte thinks there should be a separate Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) established by year end to prevent abusive recruiters from harming more Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>During the Araw ng Pasasalamat for OFWs in Camp General Aguinaldo on Friday (July 12) night, Duterte said he wanted the government to control and supervise the recruitment process of OFWs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy December\u2026Buong Pilipinas \u2018to. Bawal na \u2018yang recruitment diyan sa labas napunta ka doon. Doon ka makipag-deal, may listahan doon, mamili ka na lang kung sinong gusto mo (This is for the entire Philippines. Recruitment outside government will be prohibited,\u201d Duterte said in his speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment supervision and control because what has happened and has been happening is not acceptable to the Filipino now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said the days of overseas recruiters are numbered since the creation of a new department would enhance measures to protect the interests of Filipinos living and working abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the power to do that because that kind of mechanism of recruiting Filipino workers abroad has been abused and abused and abused,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Senator Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go, the President\u2019s former aide, vowed the creation of a Department of OFWs among his priority bills in the upcoming 18th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Labor migration rights advocate Susan &#8220;Toots&#8221; Ople welcomed Duterte&#8217;s proposal noting that it will give the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) more time to focus on the problems of local workers.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the DOLE\u2019s attached agency, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is in charge of regulating all recruitment agencies in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte thinks there should be a separate Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) established by year end &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222811,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809\/revisions\/222811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}