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<strong>The long read:</strong> Migrants from the Philippines make up a huge percentage of domestic workers around the world. But when their employers are abusive, visa restrictions force them to choose between enduring more suffering or becoming illegal
THE Covid-19 pandemic and the passage of Republic Act (RA) 11641, or the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Act, have hastened the introduction of changes to the Philippines’s five-decade-old formula for deploying overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Less than a year after its full operation, DMW under the leadership of its first secretary, Susan “Toots” V.
A former Saudi-based domestic worker says the Philippine government should lessen requirements for reintegration benefits, and make it easier for OFWs to find sustainable work upon returning home
The Catholic Church’s migrants commission on Wednesday expressed grief over the death of Susan “Toots” Ople, the secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers. “We lost a hero,” said Bishop Ruperto Santos, vice chairman of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People of the Catholic…
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