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The Senate on Wednesday ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the Magna Carta for Seafarers despite objections from two senators. Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III and Senator Risa Hontiveros voted against the ratification of the proposed law.
Pimentel also opposed the inclusion of a provision on execution bond, saying that if the requirement of posting a bond is approved, decisions of Filipino seafarers cannot be executed until the foreign employer has exhausted all his appeals up to the Supreme Court."This is clearly discriminatory if not unjust to our seafarers who file monetary claims because of financial distress.
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