RP to renegotiate OFW deployment deal with SoKor

MANILA, Philippines - Representatives from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) are set to go to South Korea to renegotiate a deal for the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) there.

POEA administrator Jennifer Manalili said the representatives would leave the country within this week or next week to renegotiate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with their counterparts in Seoul.

“Our MOU with them (South Korea) is set to expire so we are sending a team there," Manalili said in an interview with reporters on Monday.

According to Manalili, the talks with the South Korean government would also include the possible deployment of Filipino hotel service workers and information technology workers.

“Our quota for this year is 11,000 and we weren’t able to fill it up," Manalili said.

Manalili said the POEA was informed that South Korea needed overseas workers for its hotels and banks.

Carmelita Dimzon, newly installed chief of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, earlier said OWWA was in talks with South Korea for the deployment of hotel workers and IT personnel.

Dimzon also said South Korea needed English-speaking staff to work as frontline employees for its banks and hotels in Incheon. “They are opening the Incheon Metropolitan City for Filipino workers," she said.

In 2004, the Philippines and South Korea entered into a government-to-government recruitment of workers through the Employment Permit System (EPS) to correct the exorbitant mobilization costs that were being charged by private recruitment companies and their partner brokers in South Korea.

As of May 2008, a total of 20,476 Filipino workers were deployed to South Korea.

Korea currently implements EPS with countries that include Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan.

The EPA is the only means by which South Korean employers could legally hire overseas workers.

The POEA is the only government organization authorized to implement the EPS in the Philippines. - GMANews.TV

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