Cultural-Legal Training Centers for OFWs Guaranteed.
Cultural-Legal Training Centers for OFWs Guaranteed
Lakas-Kampi-CMD frontrunner Gilberto ”Gibo” Teodoro Jr. vowed last Sunday to establish more centers to conduct cultural and legal orientation for prospective migrant workers, mainly first timers on abroad employment as acknowledgment to the contribution of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to the national economy.
The former Department of Defense chief stated that the centers will concentrate not only on cultural orientation but also on updates on labor and further laws of the country where a potential Filipino worker needs to get a job overseas. The arrangement of additional centers was Gibo’s reply to an issue asked by a student during a forum held in Manila. Teodoro was asked what he would accomplish to guarantee the security of the country’s OFWs who are at present around eight millions worldwide.
”The establishment of such facilities will ensure that our OFWs will not be exploited or pushed around by their employers. Besides this, the cultural seminars will also enable them to mix freely with the natives of the country they will work in,” explained the 1989 Bar examination topnotcher.
Teodoro also explained that the centers should be raised under the direct management of the Department of Foreign Affairs which could eagerly come about with educational and employment briefings on several nations due to its political associates.
Gibo promised to carry out immense onslaught against illegal recruiters preying on innocent OFWs as well, mostly those abusing workers on a big range a crime classified as ”economic sabotage” in the Philippine’s book of bills.
”If the OFWs are truly our modern heroes, then illegal recruiters are our modern foes such that the prosecution and punishment must be swift, sure and severe with no pardon,” Gibo stressed out.
Victims of illegal recruiters comprise frequently undocumented OFWs who enjoy either small or unguarded from the Philippine government because of their undocumented condition.
Deporting of undocumented OFWs possibly will cost the government around P700 million, Teodoro explained. ”We will not only defend OFWs, we will also seek the prosecution of employers who maltreat our workers,” Teodoro pointed out.
