THE PHILIPPINES will review its bilateral labor agreement with Kuwait, the presidential palace said on Sunday, after the murder of a Filipina domestic worker whose charred body was found in a desert in the Middle Eastern country this month.
THE CASKET containing the body of slain OFW Jullebee Ranara arrived in Pasay City on Friday night. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MIGUEL DE GUZMAN
“Secretary Ople also told us to look into the recruitment standards and strengthen safe and ethical standards to ensure our overseas Filipino workers in Kuwait are safe,” Migrant Workers Undersecretary Hans Leo J. Cacdac told a briefing in mixed English and Filipino on Saturday. There are about 268,000 Filipinos in Kuwait, 195,000 of whom are working as domestic workers, according to the agency.
About 80% of the 1.4 million domestic workers in the Philippines are not covered by social security benefits, the Labor department and Philippine Statistics Authority said in a 2019 report.
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