Domestic workers

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), June 6, 2016, http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/06/1590568/philippine-starts-deployment-maids-japan MANILA, Philippines – Filipino household service workers are set be sent to Japan. Administrator Hans Cacdac of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration said they have issued the necessary implementing rules and regulations governing the hiring of Filipino household service workers in Japan.

by Samuel Medenilla, Manila Bulletin, June 5, 2016, http://www.mb.com.ph/limited-deployment-of-hsws-to-japan-approved/ The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) issued its new implementing rules and regulations (IRR) recently on the deployment of Filipino household service workers (HSW) to Japan.

by Sunstar, May 27, 2016, http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2016/05/27/calabarzon-house-helpers-get-pay-increase-476052 HOUSEHOLD service workers (HSWs) in Calabarzon are now entitled to more pay after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) – 4A approved their wage increase.

By: Jovic Yee and Evelyn Cruz, @inquirerdotnet, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 27th, 2016 It’s their time to shine—from being a largely unappreciated segment of the labor force to duly recognized partners in the Filipino home and community.

By BBC Trending, 25 April 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36112484 Disagreements about who should do housework blew up on Twitter in Saudi Arabia this week, and offered some insight into popular attitudes in the country. If you’re a Westerner, you might think this is another story about who should load the dishwasher, or about men not pulling their…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday assured Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong of protection amid reports that they are forced to render services against their will.

The study by the Justice Centre estimates that one in 6, or 50,000 of Hong Kong’s more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers – mainly from Indonesia and the Philippines – fall into the ‘forced labor’ category

Around 90 percent of the world’s 67 million domestic workers have no access to social security protection, with migrants left particularly vulnerable, the International Labor Organization said. Domestic work is largely “undervalued and unprotected,” the UN labor agency said in a new report. MIGRANT WORKERS Every day, scores of Filipino migrant workers pass through the…

MANILA – Women workers in the Philippines along with their foreign counterparts continue to grapple with long work hours including unpaid work, wage disparity, and high incidence of informality, according to a 2016 report by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

A new wage order also allows domestic workers in Eastern Visayas to bargain for higher salaries with their employers MANILA, Philippines – Domestic workers in Eastern Visayas will soon receive P500 more in their monthly salaries with a recently approved wage order by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 8.

LONDON – Forced labor among migrant domestic workers is widespread, with many women exploited even before they have left their home country and later abused by their employers abroad, a survey of modern slavery in the sector has found.

FIRST PAY HIKE IN THREE YEARS Filipino domestic helpers in Singapore are set to receive a SGD$50 increase in their monthly salary starting January, the Straits Times reported Thursday. Minimum wage for Filipino domestic helpers in Singapore was originally set by the Philippine government at $400.

Bacolod City, Negros Occ. – Domestic workers or “kasambahay,” in Western Visayas, including Negros Occidental, will receive a P500-salary increase starting February, based on the latest wage order approved by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 6.

MANILA, Philippines — Remy Borlongan, 59, left the Philippines in April 1986, a couple of months after the Marcos dictatorship was toppled. Her husband had met an accident while riding a motorcycle. Not only was he unable to earn a living for their family, debts were also piling up. So even if it meant she…

MANILA – Singapore no longer limits the duration of the work permits of household service workers by the expiry dates of their passports, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz announced Thursday.

SINGAPORE—Like many maids in Singapore, Dewie, 27, came here for a bigger pay check to support her young children. She could endure the backbreaking hours, even the repeated scoldings, but what made her decide to leave was the closed-circuit television camera in the toilet.

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Even with the protection of Batas Kasambahay, a lot of domestic workers are still underpaid, overworked, and deprived of benefits provided under the law MANILA, Philippines – Anna tiptoes around the house and moves from one room to another with a laundry basket full of clothes. She mops the floors, dusts the shelves, refills the…

MANILA – After an 18-year interval (since 1997), Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor has finally raised the minimum monthly salary of foreign household service workers (HSWs) in that island nation, from NTD15,840 (presently equivalent to P22,500) to NTD17,000 (about P24,270) retroactive to September 01 this year.

The new levels of the minimum allowable wage and food allowance will apply to all foreign domestic helper contracts signed on or after October 1

In an unprecedented move, the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board-Cordillera Autonomous Region (RTWPB-CAR) has raised the minimum wage of household service workers (HSWs) or domestic helpers.

Male Filipino domestic workers, mostly drivers, may not be aware of it, but they are now entitled to statutory paid paternity leave for 3 days. Hong Kong’s Labor Department began implementing the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2014 on statutory paternity leave on February 27 this year, an official of the agency reminded domestic workers in a…

MANILA – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz on Monday she received a report saying Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor is inclined to agree to a salary increase for household service workers proposed by the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam which could very well reach NT$17,000 a month, equivalent to P24,270, or $521.

MANILA – Noting official data that indicate “still very few domestic workers are covered with social security benefits,” detained Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada urged the Department of Labor and Employment to beef up efforts to inform the public about the prescribed standards, rights and privileges for domestic workers under the Batas Kasambahay.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) should beef up its efforts to inform the public about the prescribed standards, rights and privileges for the domestic workers, as contained in the Kasambahay Law, Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Many employers are still not complying with the Kasambahay Law more than two years after its enactment.

The secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the Philippines, Rosalinda Baldoz, is meeting with Hong Kong Secretary of Labour and Welfare, Matthew Cheung in Hong Kong on August 6 and 7 to discuss reforms to the domestic worker regime in the Philippines.

THE minimum salary of household service workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has been increased by P500, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) said Saturday.

HONG KONG – A trafficking victim, who was beaten and forced to work without pay in Hong Kong, will be allowed to challenge in the courts the autonomous region’s failure to pass laws protecting victims of forced labour early next year.

LONDON – Lebanon has launched a 24-hour hotline for female domestic workers to allow them to report abuse or mistreatment and receive help.