MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada on Wednesday said he is hopeful that the passage of a bill granting better benefits to household workers would become a model legislation that the Philippines’ neighboring countries can look up to.
Estrada, head of the Senate committee on labor and employment, said the passage of the “Kasambahay Bill” would be a great leap forward not only for RP household workers but also for the Filipino domestic workers based overseas.
According to Estrada, some member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Middle East countries do not have a comprehensive welfare act for domestic workers.
“Once approved by the Congress and enacted into law, the Kasambahay law could become the model legislation where a similar ‘Kasambahay Law’ for RP’s neighboring nations can be patterned after,” Estrada said.
“We passed the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act in 2003 or Republic Act 9208 through the stewardship of my mother Sen. Loi Ejercito Estrada.
It motivated other states to enact a similar law and the Philippines even led a discussion towards enactment of an anti-human trafficking policy and resolution of its related issues,” he recalled. –HANNH TORREGOZA, Manila BUlletin
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
June 6: Migrant Workers Day
June 19: Filipino Youth Day
June 25: Day of the Filipino Seafarer
