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No to OFW Compulsory Insurance Scam!
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Migrants and workers organizations have expressed their strong opposition to a proposed amendment to the Migrant Workers Act of 1995, or RA 8042, seeking to make it mandatory for recruitment agencies to insure the workers they send abroad.
“The compulsory insurance coverage in the proposed amendment looks good on paper, but in the guise of a benefit for our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), it is actually an added burden to them,” said an alliance of migrant worker organizations and trade unions. “On closer inspection, the insurance actually protects, not our OFWs, but the recruitment agencies, absolving them of liability should anything happen to the worker abroad.”
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