The DMW is pushing to immediately defer the processing of newly hired Filipino migrant workers bound for Kuwait in light of the gruesome murder of Jullebee Ranara, who was reportedly killed by the son of her Kuwaiti employer. | BPinlacINQ
“I said I want a deployment ban, kinontra niya ako. I was only suggesting. I don’t know kung bakit mas pinapaboran niya iyong mga polisiyang para matulungan ang recruitment agency,” he said.But according to Alones, Ople did not oppose the possibility of imposing a deployment ban, noting that a fact-finding team was sent to Kuwait on Tuesday to gather information from the ground that will help create evidence-based labor policies concerning overseas Filipino workers .
Tulfo then asked who the DMW could be protecting with its hesitant stance on the deployment ban, citing the increasing cases of OFW welfare cases in the middle eastern country.“Kumbinsido kami roon sa risk na hinaharap ng ating domestic workers. Linawin ko lang, actually, bukas si Sec. Toots at suportado niya ang panukala niyo na mag-impose ng targeted [deployment] ban,” Alones said.
She said this will call for a temporary halt on the processing of new Kuwait-bound OFW household workers, while the Philippine government is seeking to review and discuss its labor agreement with the Gulf State.“Iyong bulto ng ating mga problema na nagkakaroon ng pagmamaltrato ay nandoon sa mga new hire na umaalis. Kaya ang sabi ni Sec. Toots, in the immediate, ito ay ating i-ban muna habang may pag-uusap na nagaganap.
Tulfo then asked if this was “tantamount to a deployment ban,” to which Alones responded in the affirmative.The neophyte senator had also broached the idea of forming an association for OFW employers and a separate association for OFWs, which would regularly hold dialogue on their concerns. The heinous murder of Ranara fueled clamor to reimpose a deployment ban for OFWs to Kuwait, but Ople has since said that she does not see the need for such as she argued that “social dialogue” is the “all-important first step in resolving labor migration concerns.”
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