Ople names top officials for migrant workers

MANILA, Philippines — Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople has tapped former overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and workers’ rights advocates while retaining incumbent labor officials to help her lead the newly created Department for Migrant Workers (DMW). Ople designated four undersecretaries, namely: former Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief Bernard Olalia, former Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) chief Hans Cacdac, former Tourism Promotion Board chief Anthonette Velasco-Allones, and lawyer and workers’ rights advocate Patricia Yvonne Caunan. ADVERTISEMENT Olalia will serve as undersecretary for licensing and adjudication; Cacdac for welfare and foreign employment who will also oversee the use of the so-called Aksyon Fund for distressed OFWs; Velasco-Allones for finance and internal affairs; and Caunan for policy and international cooperation. No need to wait Ople also designated seven assistant secretaries including Venecio Legaspi who worked for 29 years in Saudi Arabia and rose from the ranks to become vice president of a prominent bank in Jeddah. The other assistant secretaries are Jerome Alcantara for land-based services, Levinson Alcantara for preemployment, Felicitas Bay for migrant workers welfare, Francis de Guzman for licensing and adjudication, Jerome Pampolina for sea-based services, and Violeta Illescas for internal management and administration. Ople said Cacdac would be replaced at the Owwa by deputy administrator Arnell Ignacio, a former OFW in Japan, whose appointment was also announced in Malacañang on Wednesday. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said Ignacio was first appointed as Owwa deputy administrator in 2018 but he resigned a year later due to personal reasons. He was reappointed to the same post in September last year. Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1644643/ople-names-top-officials-for-migrant-workers#ixzz7bddZhlZ3 Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

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