MANILA, OCTOBER 4, 2010 (STAR) By Dennis Carcamo - Migrante, a group of Filipino migrant workers, today said the newly amended law will only intensify the exportation of human labor in the country.
Migrante Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act or Republic Act 10022 further institutionalizes the goverment's labor export program but does not protect the welfare of the OFWs.
RA 10022 lapsed into law last Mar. 8 without President Arroyo signing it.
Monterona said RA 10022 is an anti-OFW, claiming that it allows the government to impose additional state exactions and fees that will bleed OFWs dry of their earnings.
"The amended law will also absolve employers and recruiters from their accountability to OFWs' well-being, rights and welfare which the government passed to them," Monterona said.
Monterona noted that with the passage of RA 10022, the government totally abandons its primary duty and responsibility in taking care of the well-being, rights and welfare of deployed OFWs into the hands of profiteering recruitment agencies, local and overseas.
He cited that the government exports labor force reaches a total of nearly one million a year.
The group has long been pushing for the scrapping of the labor export program, suggesting that the government should instead focus on domestic job generation.
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Filipino migrant rights group scores Philippine Pres.Aquino on speculative jobs announcement he would bring home from US trip
Riyadh : Saudi Arabia | Sep 26, 2010 By JohnLeonardMonterona - Filipino migrant rights group scores Philippine Pres.Aquino on speculative jobs announcement he would bring home from US trip.
An alliance of Filipino migrant rights group in the Middle East today scores President Benigno Simeon Aquino III when it announced that he would be coming home with more than 10,000 jobs for Filipinos, the group said 'what the unemployed Filipinos want are real decent jobs'.
Yesterday, the President was in San Jose, California, USA for scheduled meetings with businessmen and investors to lure them to invest in the Philippines.
According to news reports, HP signed a letter of intent to expand its operations in the Philippines. "P-Noy is like counting eggs but not yet hatched, these speculative jobs he said he would be bringing when he returns home is based on a letter of intent to expand the operation of multinational or transnational corporation is nothing but speculations or a mere intent until these TNCs and MNCs have opened its own infrastructures in the Philippines," said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator.
With this 10,000+ speculative jobs announcement, Monterona said the President should not be giving false hope to the millions of unemployed Filipinos. Monterona said if for instance the 10,000+ jobs would materialized, what would the unemployed Filipinos expect from these jobs - "Contractual, below the minimum wage, no enough benefits and compensation," he averred.
Monterona claimed dependency of the local economy on foreign investments under the neo-liberal policies of globalization (liberalization, privatization, and deregulation) would only bring more mayhem worst than typhoons Peping and Ondoy devastating not only the socio-economic well beings of the Filipinos but as well as their children's future.
"The selfish interests of foreign investors are contrary to the interests of the working people, thus they would not give just wages and better compensation package and benefits for its hired workers; they would always tend to alienate our Filipino workers own labor in order to amass profits," Monterona averred.
Monterona further said real economic development would only happen under a just and well-planned economic system, only after a nation-wide genuine distribution of land to the farmers and nationalization of the basic industries, which will serve as a well-built backbone of the Philippine economy. "It is sad to note that like previous administrations, the Aquino government is also following the path and dictates of an exploitative capitalist economic system of Imperialist states headed by the US. Under the Aquino regime, no real development will happen," Monterona ended.
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