Jordan wants to tighten rules in hiring Pinoy domestics – report

MANILA, Philippines - The Jordanian government wants to tighten regulations in hiring domestic helpers from the Philippines, according to a recent report by the The Jordan Times.

The report said this was one of the amendments under a memorandum of understanding that Jordan’s Ministry of Labor was negotiating with the Philippine government.

Jordan Times quoted Amjad Wishah, the Labor Ministry’s director for recruitment, as saying that “unauthorized agencies in the Philippines supply their Jordanian counterparts with domestic helpers who are not trained and cannot do their jobs properly."

The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has partially lifted the deployment of household workers in Jordan.

According to the DoLE, household workers who are returning to Jordan with the same employers will be exempted from the previous ban.

"This is provided that the salary of the returning (worker) shall in no way be lower than the prescribed monthly pay for Filipino household service workers of US$400," the department order said.

Representatives of the Jordanian government will visit the Philippines from August 10-14 “to discuss issues of concern for both sides," according to Wishah.

Jordan Times said that in 2007, some 260 Filipino domestics sought refuge at the Philippine Embassy in Amman after they were allegedly abused by their employers. The helpers reportedly refused to return to work and asked that they be repatriated to the Philippines.

The report further quoted Wishah as saying that the Labor Ministry was working on waiving penalties for about 60 to 70 Filipino women to facilitate their repatriation.

There are about 70,000 foreign domestics in Jordan, according to The Jordan Times citing government records. About 11,000 to 12,000 of them are Filipinos, 20,000 are Indonesians, and 35,000 are Sri Lankans.

Wishah reportedly said that if Jordan’s negotiations with the Philippines fails, the former would open its labor market to other nationalities. - GMANews.TV

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