Legal agreement para sa proteksyon ng seasonal farm workers sa South Korea, isusulong ng DMW
Legal agreement para sa proteksyon ng seasonal farm workers sa South Korea, isusulong ng DMW
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00:00 The target of the Department of Migrant Workers is to have a legal agreement
00:04 between the Philippines and South Korea for seasonal farm workers.
00:08 This is the surprise of Duel Talakay.
00:10 The wish list of the Department of Migrant Workers or DMW
00:18 for overseas Filipino workers or OFW is long.
00:23 This wish list includes the National Government to National Government Approach,
00:30 the SOULS Seasonal Workers Program or SWP.
00:34 We are implementing the Safeguards Protection.
00:40 Standard contract,
00:42 ensuring that there are limited working hours so that seasonal workers are not tired.
00:50 There are standard wages or wages that comply with the Korean minimum wage.
00:56 And there are safety protections for the welfare of our OFWs.
01:06 He also said that while the talks of the South Korean and Filipino government
01:14 are still in the early stages, the DMW first announced last month
01:20 the removal of 30 Filipino workers as SWP.
01:26 The OFWs are said to be from the three LGUs of Pampanga.
01:31 Next week, the second batch of 70 OFWs will be flying to South Korea.
01:40 What we are doing is screening the contracts.
01:44 We are making them OWA members
01:48 so that they have additional protection from OWA and K-Admin Arnel Ignacio.
01:54 And we have also given the LGUs the responsibility
02:03 to conduct orientation of their constituents before leaving
02:07 so that they know where they are going to work, their responsibilities.
02:12 And at the same time,
02:14 they will also monitor the situation of their constituents.
02:21 Before this, the LGUs of the country and South Korea had an agreement
02:26 that they called the Sisterhood Agreement two years ago.
02:31 The LGUs of the country are sending seasonal farm workers to the country
02:37 but according to KACDAC, they received complaints.
02:42 Our migrant workers office filed around 160 labor complaints
02:48 pertaining to violations of the contract,
02:54 uncomfortable or undesirable working and living conditions in farms in Korea,
03:02 underpayment of wages,
03:07 withholding of passports,
03:10 and there are six cases of deaths.
03:17 Natural causes, not because they were abused in the farms, but natural causes.
03:23 And labor and physical abuse, five.
03:27 That is why they ordered, together with the Department of the Interior and Local Government of the DILG,
03:33 to stop the Sisterhood Agreement.
03:36 Last January 11, we issued Advisory 1
03:40 where we imposed a moratorium
03:43 on the deployment of seasonal workers to Korea
03:47 pending the regulatory intervention of the DMW.
03:54 About two weeks after, the DILG issued a similar instructive moratorium to the LGUs.
04:07 In December 2023, according to the DMW, there are 3,353 Filipino seasonal workers in South Korea.
04:17 Meanwhile, in 2002, the country and South Korea agreed to get factory workers
04:26 under the Employment Permit System.
04:29 Noel Talacay for Pambansang TV of Bagong Pilipinas.