Domestic workers

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said household helpers would soon become regular employed workers with the impending passage of the Kasambahay Bill in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino lawmakers are hoping to see a 15-year effort to guarantee the rights and benefits of kasambahays or household workers finally sealed into law this year.

PRESIDENT Benigno S. C. Aquino III has ratified an International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention protecting rights of domestic workers. “I have the honor to submit, for the Senate’s consideration and concurrence, ILO Convention 189 (Convention concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers),” Mr. Aquino said in a letter to the Senate dated May 18.

MANILA — The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) is gearing to develop ethical guidelines for household employers of domestic workers to engender the protection of domestic workers’ rights, promote their welfare, and ensure a more harmonious relationship with their employers.

HOUSEHOLD service workers remain as the most in demand job outside the country, according to Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA) Regional Coordinator Rose Jervoso.

MANILA, Philippines – It’s a story you hear every day. May it be in the concrete jungles of Manila, or in an impoverished far-flung area, the Pearl of the Orient has a few left opportunities for the struggling Filipino family to earn just enough for a daily decent meal.

Saudi Arabia has set a minimum wage of SAR600-800 (US$160-213) for foreign domestic workers in the Gulf state. Officials in the GCC’s largest country set the cost of recruitment fees at SAR15,000 – 17,000, local media reported citing Saad Al-Badah, chairman of the national recruitment committee at the Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

THE demand for Filipino maids is increasing despite the higher wage employers have to pay for their services. The minimum wage for Filipino maids is set at US$400 (RM1,228) per month compared with RM600 to RM800 price-range for Indonesians.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned a landmark ruling that opened the door for thousands of foreign maids to claim residency in the southern Chinese city.

Foreign maids gather in Central, business district in Hong Kong. AP photo/Kin Cheung Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s court of appeal on Wednesday overturned a landmark ruling that opened the door for thousands of foreign maids to claim residency in the southern Chinese city.

HONG KONG’S government, facing calls to limit the strains on the city’s health and social services, won an appeal against a ruling that would have cleared the way for foreign maids to seek permanent residency in the territory.

MANILA, Philippines — Domestic helpers, one of the “lowest valued economic activities in the country,” contribute more to the economy than mining, an independent research think-tank has said.

MANILA, Philippines – Here’s something for the stakeholders in the mining industry to chew on: The collective contribution of Filipino household helps to the country’s economy may have far exceeded that of the entire mining industry in 2011, according to local research group Ibon Foundation Inc.

The Ministry of Labor has suspended the recruitment of domestic workers from Indonesia and Philippines until the two countries change their conditions that demand improved rights for any employees that come to the Kingdom.

Singapore’s decision to grant a weekly rest day to its foreign domestic workers, including Filipinos, was significant but fell short of international standards, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Legislators exerted extra efforts in 2012 for the ratification of the Household ‘Kasambahay’ Bill, especially after several cases of violence have prevailed at home and abroad. In July this year, Senate President Pro-Tempore Jinggoy Estrada wanted Congress to alter the provisions of the proposed ‘Kasambahay’ Act to make it congruent to the standards of the…

TAIPEI — A Taiwanese official suspended from her post yesterday apologized for hurting Taiwan’s image after she was deported by the United States over a maid abuse case.

A Taiwanese official who pleaded guilty to mistreating two housekeepers brought from the Philippines to work in her Missouri home will soon be deported, a US judge yesterday ruled.

Giving in to the demands of the Philippine government to protect the rights of domestic workers, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has lifted a one-year ban on the hiring of domestic servants from the Philippines.

Philippine and Saudi officials have signed an agreement lifting the deployment ban on household service workers to Saudi Arabia, the Philippine mission in Riyadh said.

I don’t know what came over me, but after years of retirement from kitchen duties, I found myself doing Pote Gallego for noche buena. And once I got started I felt driven to cook on.

In my parents’ house, the cooks and nannies, the drivers, houseboys and gardeners, the handymen and carpenters made easy friends among themselves–and then some It must be in the water, my father would mutter to himself, each time another domestic affair broke out in the open in my parents’ house. The servants seemed given to…

Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile yesterday called on the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to expedite its endorsement of an international treaty promoting the protection of domestic workers, saying this will boost efforts to improve the working and living conditions of “kasambahays” in the country.

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Vice President and housing czar Jejomar Binay announced that domestic workers or “kasambahays” can now become members of the Pag-IBIG Fund and can avail themselves of multi-purpose, calamity and housing loans.

It was the end of the day, just an hour or so before dinner. I was sitting on my bed, the pillows propped up to support my back, crocheting a blouse for my daughter, Oya. The television in front of the bed was on.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said she will utilize the largest social networking site, Facebook, to raise public awareness and to get support to the passage of the “Kasambahay” bill.

Migrant and labor groups from Asian countries urged the Philippines, one of the world’s leading deployers of domestic workers, to pioneer the ratification of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Domestic Workers Convention (C189).

Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday expressed support to the Philippine campaign on decent work for domestic workers, particularly on the swift ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 189, otherwise known as “Domestic Workers Convention, 2011.”

MANILA, Philippines – Protesters in Hong Kong yesterday marched from Wan Chai to government headquarters to protest a recent court ruling granting right of abode for domestic helpers.