The latest version of the pending Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers failed to consider recommendation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on the exclusion of labor dispute resolution provisions, particularly involving the execution bond.
The latest version of the pending Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers failed to consider recommendation of the Department of Labor and Employment on the exclusion of labor dispute resolution provisions, particularly involving the execution bond.
Both Houses of Congress through the bicameral committee convened three times just to restore the provision on the execution bond. The House contingent led the reinstatement of the said provision. He stressed that the requirement that the judgement obligee should post a bond for the execution of awards under items and places an undue burden on the worker who has no means to put up such bond.
Laguesma added that there has been no recognized valid basis for distinction in terms of how cases arising from the employment of OFWs are processed by local tribunals. The proposed provision not only makes a distinction between OFWs and local workers. It also effectively makes a distinction between sea-based and land-based OFWs.
In any case, if the employer is willing to concede to an “undisputed” claim, nothing prevents it from complying with the decision to the extent of this amount, without losing its right to partially appeal the decision on the “disputed” claim.
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