Jun Concepcion
How much does it cost every year to address and resolve maltreatment of Filipino women, mostly employed as domestic helpers, in the Middle East?
More likely than not, this perplexing question will be glossed over by labor officials in favor of the multi-billion US dollars that Filipino workers generate across the Middle East and which they pump into the country’s economy by way of remittances to their loved ones back home.
In the meantime, deployment of Filipino women to that region continues to be bedeviled by numerous problems. Despite the obvious advantages, it defies logic and reason why labor officials have not seen fit to conduct a critical review of the situation and scale down, if necessary, further deployments of more Filipino women to that region.