MANILA, Philippines—Help is on the way.
This was the assurance given by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Wednesday to 60 construction workers stranded in the Maldives after their employer failed to pay their wages five months after their arrival in the Indian Ocean archipelagic state.
OWWA Administrator Carmelita Dimzon told reporters she had called the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency to compel the workers’ recruiter to work for their repatriation and the settlement of their claims as soon as possible.
The government said it had a hard time tracking down the workers because the nearest Philippine embassy they could turn to for help was in Bangladesh, although the office does not have a welfare officer tasked to help distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
The Philippines only has an honorary consul in the Maldives, and the OFWs live on an island about 36 hours by boat from the Maldivian capital of Male. –Jerome Aning, Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 12 –
International Youth Day
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Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
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against serious violations of protocols of
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August –
Aug 1-7 World breastfeeding week
Aug 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aug 12 – International youth day
Aug 19 – World humanitarian day
Aug 23 – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Monthly Observances:
Farms Safety Month
Breastfeeding Awareness Month
Weekly Observances:
Aug 17-23: Made in the Philippines
Product Week
Aug 29-Sept 5: Rice and Corn Week
Daily Observances:
Aug 1: Family Planning Day
Aug 9: National Indigenous Peoples Day
Aug 12: International Humanitarian Law Day
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