{"id":28845,"date":"2014-10-14T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28845"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T11:35:06","slug":"dole-pushing-for-new-law-on-hiring-of-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/14\/dole-pushing-for-new-law-on-hiring-of-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE pushing for new law on hiring of foreign workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21007\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laborers-factory-workers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21007\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laborers-factory-workers.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is aggressively pushing for a new law on the\u00a0hiring of foreign workers in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department is proposing to a measure to Congress to amend the existing provision in the Labor Code.<\/p>\n<p>According to Labor Undersecretary Rebecca Chato, this move aims to state the penalties for those who will violate the rules regarding hiring of foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is one of the five proposed measures that the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) has approved for endorsement to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>DOLE created the Skills Occupational Storage List in a move to allow the entry of skilled workers in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Workers from other countries who would like to work in the Philippines are required by DOLE to get an alien employment permit (AEP).<\/p>\n<p>Those who failed to show their AEP will be penalized P10,000 for every year of illegal work.<\/p>\n<p>For Labor officials, the law amendment aims to pave the way for free movement of professionals and other workers in 10 ASEAN countries which include the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is aggressively pushing for a new law on the\u00a0hiring of foreign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2276,2487],"class_list":["post-28845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-dole","tag-foreign-workers","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28845","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=28845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}