SILVER JUBILEE

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SILVER JUBILEE
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Philippine Association of Service Exporters, Inc.
(PASEI)
Building Partnerships for Decent Work Advancing
Rights of Women Migrant Workers
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Actual Application of the Covenant of Ethical
Conduct and Good Practices
As Presented by VICTOR E.R. FERNANDEZ, JR.
During a Panel Discussion on Building
Partnerships for Decent Work Advancing Rights of
Women Migrant Workers
July 12, 2006 United Nations Headquarters, New
York City
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We are first and foremost the CREATORS OF
WEALTH We are business people with a conscience
and moral/social responsibilities to
others. BEST JOB in the world because WE UPLIFT
PEOPLES LIVES. If workers do not have problems,
we - - Overseas Employment Providers - - will
have no problems.
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• GOAL-SETTING for our Migrant Workers
• 1.1. The Old Formula for Savings is
• INCOME minus EXPENSES equals SAVINGS
• 1.2. The New Formula - - -
• INCOME minus SAVINGS equals EXPENSES

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2. Workers Empowerment through knowledge and
correct information for Enlightened and
Well-informed Decisions. PRE-APPLICATION
ORIENTATION SEMINAR (PAOS) or PRE-EMPLOYMENT
ORIENTATION SEMINAR (PEOS) of Migration
realities.
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Migration Realities GO or NO GO
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3. We OEPs should re-focus our VISION to include
corporate social responsibility in our respective
associations and in our individual and personal
role as WEALTH-CREATORS.
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The Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC
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PASEI is the Association of Recruitment Agencies
in the Philippines accredited and certified by
PCNC PASEI is a DONEE Institution
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PASEI-BILEG LCS AMOR Training Center
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A well-trained and skill prepared worker is less
prone to abuse and thus better protected.
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4. WELFARE PROTECTION AGAINST a.) Abuse from
Employer b.) Non-Payment of Wages c.) Illegal
Termination d.) Accident e.) Death f.)
Repatriation g.) Medical or Legal
Assistance h.) etc.
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So before even processing the workers travel
paper of our migrant workers with our Labor
Office, PASEI had created a customized Personnel A
ccident and Social Entitlement Insurance Benefits
and Welfare Coverage for them called the WORKERS
WELFARE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (WWEP).
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What Benefits will OCWs get from the
WWEP? Overseas Contract Workers
Protection Benefits Amount Accidental Death
Benefit US 15,000 Subsistence Allowance US
600 (US 100/Month) Permanent Total
Disablement US 7,500 (as per schedule
indemnity) Survivors Benefit US 10,000
(In case of Natural Death) Bodily Remains US
15,000 (including burial, up to the
Maximum reimbursement)
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Repatriation Other Causes and
Emergency Evacuation US 1,000 15 days /
No fault repatriation Legitimate Monetary
Claims up to 6 months US 4,500
Legal Assistance through Mediation Sabotage and
Terroristic Act Protection benefit as a
by-stander
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• How Much is the Premium?
• The Premium Cost per Contact
• Contact Period Total Premium
• 7 Months US 20.00
• 13 Months US 35.00
• 25 Months US 55.00
• At a weighted average subsidized cost, this is
  about
• US 2.50/per OCW/month only.
• For Domestic Helpers, Factory Workers and
  Caretakers, the following rates shall pay
• a. an additional US 15.00 shall be assessed for
  those that are being deployed to ASIAN countries.
• b. an additional US 20.00 shall be assessed for
  those that are being deployed to the MIDDLE EAST
  and EUROPEAN countries.

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WORKERS WELFARE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

• Workers Welfare Enhancement Programme
  Beneficiary. Epifania E. Gallajones
  (seated left) widow-beneficiary of an OFW
  electrician, Efren A. Gallajones, who died of
  natural cause barely two weeks after being
  deployed in Qatar, is shown receiving a check
  payment representing death claim survivor benefit
  amounting to P539,000. (US10,000) from Norberto
  V. Sauco, Executive Vice President of the Eastern
  Assurance Surety Corp.

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WWEP Summary of Claims

• Total Amount of Claims
• May 1 to December 31, 2004 P 267,834.53
• Jan. 1 to December 31, 2005 P1,697,236.15
• Jan. 1 to February 28, 2006 P 585,344.10
• TOTAL P2,550,514.68

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CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH MEDIATION
CORE Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) will
Speed Up of OCW Cases. The leaders of the
overseas employment industry sign the Memorandum
of Agreement which provide for the submission of
labor disputes filed by the OCWs arising from
violations of contractual obligations by their
foreign employers through voluntary arbitration.
The agreement encourages Overseas Employment
Providers, who are necessarily impleaded as
co-respondents, and complaining OCWs to submit
their cases for mediation / conciliation with The
Conflict Resolution Group Foundation, Inc. (The
CORE) headed by Ms. Annabelle T. Abaya before
filing the same with the National Labor Relation
Commission (NLRC).
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NGO
CORE


AGENCY MEMBER
MIGRANT
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In closing the Welfare Measures for Migrant
Workers by Overseas Employment Providers
contribute to 1. The re-shaping of our image
from that of being called vultures, blood-sucking
vampires, modern day slave-traders (these are
the good adjectives which describe us) 2.
Making us partners in the UPLIFTMENT of the
standard of living of our migrants 3. Creating
a socio-civic corporate culture concerned with
social responsibilities for the protection of the
migrants we deploy. 4. Building of WEALTH for
our migrants, as this is teaching them to fish.
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JEDDAH
RIYADH
DAMMAM
Overseas Calls
FREE
Assistance To OCWs In Distress (ATOC-WID)
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Thank You