My name is Gaea Cabico — I am a journalist with Philstar.com. In collaboration with journalist Jake Conley and The Outlaw Ocean Project, Jake and I have spent the last seven months developing a report on the DMW’s responses to distressed OFWs and its adherence to Philippine law surrounding the protection of OFWs. We seek to provide a fair opportunity for response to our findings and any allegations made by sources we have spoken with, and as such we would like to offer the DMW the chance to confirm, refute and/or comment on our research, which you’ll find laid out below, including statistical/…
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I'm adding two additional points and questions for you to comment on: –According to the legal accounting filed with the NLRC, in the case of one OFW we're writing about, the OFW died aboard a fishing vessel where he was placed by his principal, AMBBS Shipping Management. The vessel the OFW died on, however, did not appear anywhere on his original contract, which we have reviewed. His contract had said he would be working as a messman aboard a cargo vessel, not as a fisher on a fishing vessel. This would violate DMW policies requiring transparency of placement labor type and location by…
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Department of Migrant Workers Undersecretary Bernard Olalia spoke with The Outlaw Ocean Project and said that the Department is focused on providing Filipino citizens working abroad with assistance and pointed to the One Repatriation Command Center, established in 2021. He also said the Department has policies in place to prevent companies from "phoenixing," and that it conducts routine unannounced inspections on manning agencies to make sure they are compliant with Philippine labor law. When asked about manning agencies that had been charged with labor crimes yet were still allowed to operate…
My name is Gaea Cabico — I am a journalist with Philstar.com. In collaboration with journalist Jake Conley and The Outlaw Ocean Project, Jake and I have spent the last seven months developing a report on the DMW’s responses to distressed OFWs and its adherence to Philippine law surrounding the protection of OFWs. We seek to provide a fair opportunity for response to our findings and any allegations made by sources we have spoken with, and as such we would like to offer the DMW the chance to confirm, refute and/or comment on our research, which you’ll find laid out below, including statistical/…