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06 November 2024
Embassy Press and Information Section
WASHINGTON D.C. – Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo J. Cacdac, who was on official visit in Washington, D.C., met with United States (US) employers and Filipino community leaders on separate occasions on 30 October 2024 at the Philippine Embassy Chancery Annex. Various issues affecting Filipino migrants in the US were tackled during the meetings.
Cacdac thanked the employers for their continued confidence in overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). He acknowledged the challenges facing employers in recruiting Filipino workers but assured them that the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is prepared to work with them in overcoming these challenges. “Our thrust at the DMW is to streamline our processes to prevent unnecessary delay in the deployment of OFWs. We are also intensifying our engagements with various host governments to help us craft developmental approaches to recruitment,” Cacdac said.
Twenty (20) employers representing healthcare, education, manufacturing and seafaring sectors across the US attended the meeting. These employers raised policy issues on migration, employment and recruitment affecting foreign workers in the US, including OFWs. They requested support of the Philippine government in creating a policy environment that will facilitate temporary and permanent migration of Filipino workers to the US.
Meanwhile, in the townhall meeting with the Filipino community, Cacdac told the attending Filipino leaders the importance given by the DMW to migrant workers protection. He said that the DMW through the Migrant Workers Office (MWO) of the Philippine Embassy is helping address the various issues OFWs. He encouraged them to work closely with the MWO in responding to problems of the OFW community.
The townhall meeting was graced by 29 Filipino community leaders from nine (9) organizations in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia (DMV) representing nurses, medical technologists, teachers, media, private staff of diplomats and foreign missions, and businessmen. ###
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