{"id":29933,"date":"2014-10-28T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29933"},"modified":"2014-10-28T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:02:00","slug":"bill-on-war-risk-provisions-for-ofws-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/28\/bill-on-war-risk-provisions-for-ofws-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill on war-risk provisions for OFWs filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22321\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22321\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Congress-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"(Malacanang stock photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Congress-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Congress.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Malacanang stock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Rep. Weslie Gatchalian recently passed a bill that aims to include war risk provisions in all insurance policies of Filipinos who are working overseas.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 4924, which amends Republic Act 8042, otherwise known as Migrant Overseas Workers Act of 1995, aims to include \u201cwar risk, invasion, insurrection, revolution, military coup and terrorism\u201d in the compulsory insurance coverage for hired overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who are looking for employment opportunities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gatchalian, \u201cpolitical and civil unrest dominates the global politics such as the Arab Spring, political turmoil\u2019s in Libya, Syria and Iraq that swept the Arab nations and Eastern Europe and even the acts of terrorism by some fundamentalist groups such as the ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of this unrest are our OFWs who are caught in the crossfire,\u201d Gatchalian added.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the government current efforts on securing OFWs from war-affected areas are only limited to evacuation and repatriation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur OFWs are not yet financially protected for all the risk they encounter in countries under civil or political unrest,\u201d Gatchalian noted. \u201cOur existing compulsory insurance is limited to ordinary perils such as accidental death, natural death or disablement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once enacted into law, the bill will also assure that the insurance coverage will be for the entire duration of the worker\u2019s employment contract at no cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Rep. Weslie Gatchalian recently passed a bill that aims to include war risk provisions in all insurance policies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[8385],"class_list":["post-29933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-war-risk-provision","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29933","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=29933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}