Proposal on migrant workers’ protection gains support
SENATOR Raffy Tulfo’s proposed amendment to migrant workers’ right to have access to relevant labor protection information” in the final draft of the Committee on Labor Protection’s International Labor Organization (ILO) gained approval from the employers’ and workers’ groups.
Tulfo, who defended the amendment before representatives of countries attending the ILO 111th Conference, said it also gained support from the Japan government.
He explained that the amendment came from his personal experience in his radio program “Wanted sa Radyo” where relatives of seafarers asking for help on their missing relatives complained that shipowners and authorities of the country investigating the case would not share vital information with them.
Tulfo said with Japan concurring the amendment and the workers and employers group giving it a thumbs up, it will be immediately passed.
