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| Felicitas Q. Bay, DMW Undersecretary for Foreign Employment and Welfare Services |
OFWs who dream of going to Europe by getting a tourist visa and taking risks in looking for a job once there, can get there faster at less cost -- and with their rights looked after by the host governments.
They just need to go back to Manila and participate in the recruitment
programs for countries with which the Department of Migrant Workers has
established agreements for the recruitment of Filipino workers.
On Oct. 15, for example, 10 Croatian employers will descend at
DMW’s headquarters in Mandaluyong to recruit workers for their hotel industry,
according to Felicitas Q. Bay, DMW undersecretary for Foreign Employment and
Welfare Services.
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She told a recent press briefing that the recruitment
activity will coincide with Croatia-Philippines Friendship Week celebration.
Employers from Lithuania are also
looking for workers in the manufacturing and service industries, she said.
“The same is true with Poland, with
104 accredited employers with 12,000 job orders,” she said. Poland has hired 664
workers so far.
Czech Republic, on the other hand, already has 12,000
Filipino workers, mostly in the manufacturing and transportation industries.
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With 62 accredited employers with 7,765 job orders this
year, the country has raised its quota of workers imported from the Philippines
from 5,000 last year to 10,300 this year.
The rise in numbers comes less than a year since DMW
Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac signed a joint labor communique on joint labor
mechanisms with his Czech counterpart, in a ceremony held in Manila and witnessed
by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Czech President Petr Pavel.
The agreement features fair and ethical recruitment, identification
of sectors where Filipinos are in demand and continuing dialogue between the
two countries.
“We asked the workers; their feedback is good regarding treatment
by their Czech employers,” Bay said.
In fact, she said, the Philippine embassy in Prague is seeking the host government’s permission for the Migrant Worker’s Office to expand so it can have a welfare officer to serve the needs of the workers not just in Czech Republic but also in Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine and Poland.
