For most of her career, the late Migrant Workers Secretary Susan ‘Toots’ Ople worked tirelessly for overseas Filipino workers’ right to live and work decently
Toots Ople worked closely with and for her father throughout his career up until the end. Through her work as her father’s media officer, she developed her talent in writing. In a heartfeltAs his chief of staff during his time as foreign affairs secretary, Ople became more deeply involved in OFW issues, particularly in human trafficking.
PROUD PARENTS. Susan ‘Toots’ Ople poses for a photo with her father Senator Blas Ople and mother Susana, after graduation at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University in Cambridge, Boston in 1999. Susan finished a master’s degree course in Public Administration where she received the Josephine Vernon Award for Excellence in Communications.
Still championing OFWs, Ople tried her hand at the Senate in 2010 and 2016. Her campaign centered on improving working conditions in the Philippines so that Filipinos would not be forced to seek employment abroad. She pushed for the end of contractualization and sought the passage of an anti-age discrimination law so that Filipinos would not turn to work abroad after being rejected by local employers due to their age.
The creation merged the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and all offices related to OFWs in the labor, foreign affairs, and social welfare departments, while keeping the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration as an attached agency. It intended to lessen the inconveniences that OFWs experience when running to different offices to secure documents and other concerns.
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