Domestic workers

By Philippine News Agency, Dec 11, 2017 MANILA — Domestic workers in Western Visayas and Davao Region are in for an early Christmas gift. This, as the wage boards of the two regions approved an increase in their wages which will take effect on Saturday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

By: Tina G. Santos – Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 01, 2017 Household service workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) will soon be receiving a P1,000 increase in wage.

There are 10 million domestic workers, making up 20% of the total migrant workforce in the region Patty Pasion, Rappler, Oct 26, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – There are 10 million domestic workers in Southeast Asia but they remain “invisible” in the region’s labor sector.

BY PERSIDA ACOSTA, Manila Times, Jul 31, 2017 Dear PAO, Dina referred to me her distant relative named Sharon to be my all-around kasambahay. I was convinced to give Sharon a contract after she passed the character background check, and after I learned that she was forced to seek employment here in Manila in order…

By PRINCESS CLEA ARCELLAZ, Sun Star, Jul 27, 2017 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)-Central Luzon announced on Thursday that it is set to issue a new wage order increasing the minimum wage rates for domestic workers or “kasambahays” in the region.

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By MICHAELA DEL CALLAR, Jul 18, 2017 XIAMEN, China – A Philippine senior diplomat on Monday said foreign domestic helpers are prohibited from working in China, warning that Filipino workers illegally employed as maids will be arrested and deported by Chinese authorities.

by Therese Reyes, Jun 18, 2017 At age 12, Fidelina Geraldez, now 49, was already working at her uncle’s store, poultry farm, and piggery. She said working for relatives is common in her hometown of Cebu, a province in Visayas island. Utang na loob—or “debt of gratitude”—is a value that runs deep in Philippine society.…

By Charles R. Pepito, Businessmirror, May 24, 2017 THE minimum wage of kasambahay, or domestic helpers, in Central Visayas is now P3,000 per month. Wage Order ROVII-DW 01, which took effect on April 13, set the new monthly minimum-wage rate for kasambahay working in the cities and all first-class municipalities in the region.

The Straits Times/Asia News Network, Mar 27, 2017 SINGAPORE — A Singaporean couple who pleaded guilty to starving their Filipina maid were jailed and fined on Monday.

The Straits Times/Asia News Network, Mar 26, 2017 Every night, Ms. Josefina Amparo Hosena, 45, beds down together with her young charge Leona Heng to the soothing music of celebrity South Korean pianist Yiruma. Every few hours, Ms Josefina wakes to replenish five-year-old Leona’s milk supply through her feeding tube, and clean it. She gingerly…

Economic integration has not improved promised legal protections JOHN KRICH, Mar 10, 2017 SINGAPORE — From the very outset, Myint’s search for work to support her family had to be conducted outside the law. Like thousands before her, the frightened young woman from Myanmar was recruited by a Yangon labor agency in defiance of a…

By Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), Feb 20, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – To ensure the welfare of all Filipino household workers, Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael Sueno urged mayors to require their constituents to register all their helpers and for barangay chairmen to implement kasambahay (domestic helper) registration in their localities.

BY JING VILLAMENTE, Manial Times, Feb 18, 2017 Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael “Mike” Sueno urged those who have domestic workers or kasambahays in to register them in their barangay (villages) centers.

BY MICHAEL JOE T. DELIZO, TMT, Manila Times, Feb 11, 2017 THE Hong Kong government has finally agreed to add a safety clause in the job contracts of foreign domestic helpers.

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21716584-there-obvious-solution-asias-looming-labour-shortage There is an obvious solution Feb 11th 2017 THE agencies are anonymous and unobtrusive amid the glamorous hustle of Shanghai, the better to stay in the shadows. They deal in an illegal but highly desirable product: people, specifically Filipina domestic workers to serve China’s growing middle class. Filipina helpers, says one agent, will follow…

By: Jhunnex Napallacan, @cebudailynews, Feb. 6, 2017 Household service workers in Cebu City and in other parts of Central Visayas can now expect a P1,000 increase of their monthly minimum rate.

Kasambahays, or domestic workers, in Negros Occidental will soon receive an additional P500 in their monthly salary, too, Salome Siaton, DOLE Region 6 OIC-Regional Director of the Department of Labor and Employment, said yesterday.

Published November 3, 2016 10:42pm A labor group reported that 50 percent of domestic workers are not given the thirteen month pay due them by their employers.

By: InterAksyon.com, October 25, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — Domestic workers in the Ilocos region should now be earning a minimum monthly wage of P2,500-3,500 after the latest order of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board.

by Sunstar, October 10, 2016 MORE than 200,000 minimum wage earners in the Ilocos Region are set to get additional pays ranging from P12 to P27 per day starting October 2, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole).

HK PAY ONLY A THIRD OF MINIMUM WAGE By BEH LIH YI, Reuters, October 7, 2016 JAKARTA – A survey of ads for jobs in Asia and the Middle East found that foreign domestic workers are paid most in Hong Kong, yet earn a fraction of what they would make if they worked in wealthier…

by Freddie G. Lazaro, Manila Bulletin, October 5, 2016 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in has set the minimum wages for domestic workers in the Ilocos region. Based on the Wage Order No. RB1-DW-01, which took effect on October 2, 2016, the monthly minimum wage of domestic…

‘FOR SAFETY PURPOSES’ http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583860/news/pinoyabroad/pinoy-domestic-helpers-in-hk-barred-from-cleaning-exterior-windows HONG KONG — Filipino domestic helpers here will no longer be allowed to clean the windows of the flats of their employers in high-rise buildings, according to the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO).

BY THE MANILA TIMES, OCTOBER 1, 2016 Dear PAO, My aunt has taken care of me since I was nine years old because my parents have been working in Manila. Since I am now 18 years old and in college, she decided to try her luck in Manila and find work as a household helper.…

By BONG GARCIA, September 24, 2016, SunStar THE thousands of workers in the private sector and the kasambahay (domestic workers) in Zamboanga Peninsula Region will receive salary increase starting October 1, this year.

Omar Hasan, Agence France-Presse, Jul 15 2016 Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.

by PERSIDA ACOSTA, Manila Times, July 4, 2016 Persida Acosta Dear PAO, I currently employ several household helpers in our home in Manila. Most of them are from far-flung provinces. In order to get their services, I usually pay for their transportation expenses, which include their food for the trip and financial allowance they need…

By Mayen Jaymalin, June 27, 2016, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/phl-achieved-decent-domestic-workers-000000965.html The Philippines is one of eight countries that has achieved much in improving the living and working conditions of domestic helpers, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has reported.

By: Bayani San Diego Jr. @inquirerdotnet, Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 20th, 2016, http://entertainment.inquirer.net/196355/ofw-film-wins-in-ny-fest-filipino-domestic-helper-bags-best-actress-honor According to the film’s website, “Remittance” is a “realistic portrayal of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore, shot in real locations with a cast that includes actual domestic workers.”