Kasambahay Bill
Foreign Study
Baldoz said Even while the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) on the recently enacted Kasambahay Law is being completed, Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday has already urged household service workers (HSWs) and employers to prepare themselves for a paradigm shift that will professionalize domestic workers in the Philippines and abroad, at the same time advocating the use of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE)’s Career Information Pamphlet as a guide. “The Kasambahay Law is a landmark piece of labor and social legislation that recognizes for the first-time domestic workers as similar to those in the formal sector. It, at the same time, strengthens respect, protection, and promotion of the rights and welfare of domestic workers,”
“This is the paradigm shift that we speak of; and part of our strategy in raising the level of public knowledge and understanding, aside from online posting of the government’s version of the IRR and public consultations through social media, is the release of information, education and communication materials (IECs) like the career information pamphlet on HSWs,” she added.
According to the pamphlet, an HSW is internationally defined as someone who does a variety of household maintenance. Typically living in his/her employer’s residence, an HSW is usually in charge of preparation of meals, cleaning the dishes, doing laundry, providing care for employer’s children, and general house helping chores.
Conrado de Quiros Said Some news reports say that the new Kasambahay Law (Republic Act 10361, “An Act Instituting Policies for the Protection and Welfare of Domestic Workers” was signed into law on 18 January 2013) will have the unintended consequence of making many people unemployed. Families who could not afford to pay P 2500/month (in Metro Manila) to their kasambahays are expected to lay them off en masse.
There are two kinds of families who pay their kasambahays too
Baldoz said Even while the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) on the recently enacted Kasambahay Law is being completed, Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday has already urged household service workers (HSWs) and employers to prepare themselves for a paradigm shift that will professionalize domestic workers in the Philippines and abroad, at the same time advocating the use of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE)’s Career Information Pamphlet as a guide. “The Kasambahay Law is a landmark piece of labor and social legislation that recognizes for the first-time domestic workers as similar to those in the formal sector. It, at the same time, strengthens respect, protection, and promotion of the rights and welfare of domestic workers,”
“This is the paradigm shift that we speak of; and part of our strategy in raising the level of public knowledge and understanding, aside from online posting of the government’s version of the IRR and public consultations through social media, is the release of information, education and communication materials (IECs) like the career information pamphlet on HSWs,” she added.
According to the pamphlet, an HSW is internationally defined as someone who does a variety of household maintenance. Typically living in his/her employer’s residence, an HSW is usually in charge of preparation of meals, cleaning the dishes, doing laundry, providing care for employer’s children, and general house helping chores.
Conrado de Quiros Said Some news reports say that the new Kasambahay Law (Republic Act 10361, “An Act Instituting Policies for the Protection and Welfare of Domestic Workers” was signed into law on 18 January 2013) will have the unintended consequence of making many people unemployed. Families who could not afford to pay P 2500/month (in Metro Manila) to their kasambahays are expected to lay them off en masse.
There are two kinds of families who pay their kasambahays too