Manpower export industry
LIKE other manpower-exporting nations across the globe, the Philippines is seen to continue relying on its overseas employment program to meet the employment needs of the people.
This is expected because many business establishments remain closed while others continue to retrench employees owing to the imposition of quarantine restrictions.
These restrictions are aimed at stopping the further spread of the coronavirus disease 2019.
Of course, nobody can blame the country’s beleaguered businessmen, particularly owners of small and medium-scale enterprises, for their reluctance to go into full operations.
Due to the fear of contracting the dreaded and deadly coronavirus disease, otherwise known as COVID-19, which originated from Wuhan, China, many Filipinos prefer to stay at home.
Instead of going to shopping malls or public markets, many housewives and consumers buy groceries and other basic necessities from ambulant vendors and online marketers.
That’s why many business firms now lack customers, which is certainly hurting the domestic economy and the livelihood of millions of our countrymen.
Thus, we cannot overemphasize the importance of the government helping our workers wishing to work overseas “habang wala pang makitang trabaho sa ating bansa.”
But we have to rid the dollar-oriented manpower export industry of foreign and local illegal recruiters, who continue to victimize jobseekers, notably in the impoverished countryside.
Note that many problematic overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including those languishing in foreign jails, are victims of sweet-talking illegal recruiters.
Kaya dapat paghuhulihin lahat ang mga nambibiktima ng mga kababayan nating gustong magtrabaho sa ibang bansa, lalong-lalo na ang ating mga kababaihan.
