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Duterte orders DOLE, DSWD to step up campaign vs. illegal recruiters


President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered the Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Social Welfare and Development to step up the campaign against illegal recruitment.

Duterte gave the directive as recalled anew the abuses committed against overseas Filipino workers in a speech at the awarding ceremony of child-friendly municipalities in Malacañang.

“I am sending him a message now that you have to do more,” the President said, addressing Social Welfare Secretary Rolando Bautista, who was in the audience.

“I hope you can come up with a structure, a bigger one to go after itong recruitment. And so goes for the Department of Labor and everybody. My orders are really to get them.”

Duterte is pushing for the creation of a department of OFWs that will put Philippine-based recruitment agencies under strict government regulation.

He also said the creation of such department will ensure the OFWs’ welfare, protection and access to government services.  — Virgil Lopez/RSJ, GMA News

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