{"id":243285,"date":"2020-01-28T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243285"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:55:41","slug":"palace-welcomes-murder-raps-vs-slain-ofws-kuwaiti-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/28\/palace-welcomes-murder-raps-vs-slain-ofws-kuwaiti-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace welcomes murder raps vs. slain OFW\u2019s Kuwaiti employers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark after Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, during a Senate labor committee hearing, bared that Villavende\u2019s employers were formally charged and detained in a facility for high criminals. (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday welcomed the filing of murder charges against the Kuwaiti employers of Filipino domestic worker Jeanelyn Villavende.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark after Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, during a Senate labor committee hearing, bared that Villavende\u2019s employers were formally charged and detained in a facility for high criminals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s good because that\u2019s what we\u2019re asking for\u2014justice. We welcome that,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

However, Panelo echoed Bello\u2019s stance on keeping the temporary deployment ban of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Gulf State in the wake of Villavende\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt stays. The ban is temporary,\u201d Panelo, also Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, said.<\/p>\n

Bello said the temporary ban stays until the Kuwaiti government agrees to \u201charmonize\u201d the memorandum of agreement on the protection of OFWs in the Arab country signed by the two countries on May 11, 2018.<\/p>\n

The agreement aims to put an end to inhumane treatment committed against Filipino workers by their Kuwaiti employers.<\/p>\n

It contains provisions which include requiring workers\u2019 passports to be deposited to the Philippine embassy and not confiscated by employers; workers are given one day off every week; workers are given seven hours of sleep a day; workers provided with decent meals and sleeping quarters; and workers provided with cellphones.<\/p>\n

Panelo earlier said the Kuwaiti government has yet to honor the pact on the protection of Filipino workers in the Gulf State.<\/p>\n

Prior to the signing of the labor pact, Duterte imposed a total deployment ban on new workers to Kuwait after the murder of domestic worker Joanna Demafelis, along with a series of reported abuse and maltreatment of Filipino domestic workers.<\/p>\n

On May 15, 2018, four days after the signing of the labor pact, Duterte ordered the lifting of the ban of Filipino workers to Kuwait.<\/p>\n

However, Villavenda\u2019s death prompted Duterte to reimpose the ban on Filipino workers to Kuwait on January 17, 2020.<\/p>\n

On December 28, 2019, Villavende was brought dead to a hospital in Kuwait after reportedly being beaten by her lady employer. Her family here was informed of her death on December 30, 2019.<\/p>\n

Results of the National Bureau of Investigation\u2019s examination of Villavende\u2019s remains showed signs of sexual abuse on the victim. There were also \u201cold healed wounds\u201d which indicate that Villavende had been battered weeks prior to her killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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