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MIGRANTE sees damaging impact on OFWs deployment and possible jobs displacement as PH-Taiwan tension escalates

Friday, May 17, 2013 1:11

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Meanwhile, Monterona sees a damaging impact on OFWs deployment and possible jobs displacement as tension between the Philippines and Taiwan is getting high. He said it is prudent on PNoy govt. to consider sending high-level delegation team to talk with the Taiwan govt. to settle the issue and to mitigate the impact on OFWs deployment and displacement.

He extends an unsolicited advice to fellow OFWs in Taiwan to take extra care and limit their movements and engagement to enraged Taiwanese.

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Press Release

17 May 2013

Ready reintegration program for displaced OFWs, group urges PNoy govt.

The Filipino migrants rights group MIGRANTE today urges President Benigno Simeon Aquino III (PNoy) to order the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and other concerned government agencies to ready its reintegration program for displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

“We knew for a fact that there are OFWs who have sought repatriation from Saudi Arabia; some of them undocumented, while others have been displaced by Saudization or locally known in the Kingdom as Nitaqat, which means localization of labor giving priority jobs to Saudi nationals over expatriate workers,” said MIGRANTE vice chairperson John Leonard Monterona, also regional coordinator of Migrante International in the Middle East.

Monterona, who is spending his annual vacation now in the Philippines, said there are 7,500 stranded OFWs in Saudi Arabia who have sought assistance for their repatriation from the PH embassy and consulate in the Kingdom.

Around 4,500 have set up tents beside the PH consulate since the 1^st week of April in Jeddah and still there until now, while 165 stranded OFWs encamped inside the PH embassy compound in Riyadh on May 4.

“There number is expected to surge from between 12,000 to 22,000 when the 90-day grace period granted by the Saudi govt. to fix their documents, either for transfer of sponsor or repatriation, comes nearer to an end July 8,” Monterona explained.

Majority of the stranded OFWs were run away from their sponsor. Some have pending absconding case filed by their sponsors locally called ‘Horoob’, while others are lucky enough that their sponsors did not file an absconding case against them.

Even the OFWs with legal status but on a free visa known as ‘freelancer’ are also affected by the Saudization/Nitaqat. After the 90-day grace period, they’re the also a target of an intensified crackdown by the Saudi authorities, according to Monterona.

“These displaced OFWs will be facing tough economic situation back in the Philippines amid PNoy govt. claim that the economy is growing,” Monterona averred.

The OFW leader further said that the displaced OFWs are unprepared and many of them coming home empty.

“Thus, we are urging PNoy to order the DoLE, OWWA and other concerned agencies to ready a comprehensive reintegration program that will assist all displaced and returning OFWs, not only limited to OWWA active members, by providing entrepreneurship skills trainings and loans for small business,” Monterona suggested.

On 2011, PNoy ordered the allocation of P2-B for OWWA’s OFW Reintegration Program (OFW-RP) taken from the P12.8-B OWWA trust fund pooled from US$25 OFW membership fee held in trust to the government.

He extends an unsolicited advice to fellow OFWs in Taiwan to take extra care and limit their movements and engagement to enraged Taiwanese. (End) # # #

Reference:

John Leonard Monterona

MIGRANTE vice chairperson

Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator

Mobile No. 0063 923 420 0112

Source: http://migranteme.blogspot.com/2013/05/ready-reintegration-program-for.html

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