A Filipino employee and a representative of service providers for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations on Wednesday opposed before a House committee the plan to ban POGOs in the country.
According to Tina Panganiban-Perez's report on "24 Oras", POGO encoder Jacqueline Adap said she was able to help her family because of her work at one of the offshore gaming firms."Sana naman po open-minded po kayo na wag-isara kasi marami pong natutulungan si POGO," Adap told the House Committee on Labor on Employment which held a hearing on POGOs on Wednesday.There are 20,016 foreigners working for them.
"If the industry will go back to its pre-pandemic contribution. We will be able to help not only our economy but more importantly our Filipino workers," ASPAP's representative said. NEDA Assistant Secretary Sarah Lynne Daway Ducanes, however, warned of the country losing Chinese tourists and their contributions to the Philippines' grodd domestic product.
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