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OFW rights group doubts HSWs ‘new standard employment contract’ will be followed

Saturday, October 6, 2012 13:12

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Press Release

6 October 2012

OFW rights group doubts HSWs ‘new standard employment contract’ will be followed

Founding Assembly of Ang Kapatiran ng Migranteng Kababaihan sa Qatar (KMK-Qatar), an organization of Filipino household service workers in Doha-Qatar under the banner of Migrante-Qatar, October 5, 2012.

A Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East today expressed doubts over the ‘new standard employment contract for household service workers (HSWs), which was recently inked by the Philippine and Saudi governments.

“We expressed our apprehension if the new standard employment contract for our Filipino domestic workers inked recently by the Philippine and Saudi governments will be fully implemented or at the least will be honestly followed,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator.

Monterona added that standard contracts only served ‘for the sake of formality’.

“The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) standard contracts especially those for land-based OFWs including those of domestic workers have not been followed. In fact, numerous cases of contract substitutions have been documented and are surging,” he added.

Monterona noted that in most of the cases his group has handled, there were always be an issue of contract substitution, wherein deployed OFWs were forced to sign a ‘new’ contract usually written in Arabic that stipulates onerous provision to the disadvantage of our OFWs and in contrary to the original provisions of the standard contract.

“Notably, some OFWs have been victim of salary downgrading or the reduction of their salary in violation of the standard contract of the PH government,” Monterona added.

Like for instance, Monterona cited, the case of the minimum wage set forth by the POEA long-time ago in the HSWs standard contract which is US$400 that is hardly followed by employers.

Monterona said, “Instead of setting a minimum wage for HSWs, a maximum allowable wage must instead be set forth in the standard contract as our HSWs will be required to be certified worker that makes them competitive.”

He added that the certification of Filipino domestic workers must not add burden in terms of additional fees and charges to be imposed on them.

Monterona, however, suggested that a joint-monitoring mechanism must be put in place to ensure that the provisions of the new standard contract will be honestly followed and from time to time will be revised to suit international labor standards.

On a separate development, an organization of Filipino household service workers called Ang Kapatiran ng Migranteng Kababaihan sa Qatar (KMK-Qatar) under the banner of Migrante International was successfully founded yesterday, 5 October.

“The newly formed group of Filipino household service workers vowed to advance the rights and welfare of Filipino domestic workers in Qatar and in campaigning for the implementation of the International Labor Organization’s Convention on Domestic Workers,” Monterona added.

Reference:

John Leonard Monterona, regional coordinator

Migrante-Middle East

Mobile No. 00974 33 20 5565

2012-10-06 13:06:18

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