Mandatory Insurance Cover for Filipino Expats
DUBAI — Filipino expatriates will soon be covered by a mandatory insurance scheme that will see them through the hassles of litigation and repatriation expenses if they run away or file cases in their host country against
their employers.
Philippine Senator Jinggoy Estrada, son of former President Erap Estrada and chairman of the Labor and Employment Committee in the Senate, told runaway helpers at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Deira that the proposed legislation will be treated in the bicameral committee session by Wednesday, September 24, the last step for it to be passed into a law.
Senator Jinggoy said the ongoing insurance provision will amend Section 10-A of the Migrant Workers Act, which provides only an option for the recruitment agency sending the overseas Filipino workers to cover him with insurance. “Once the amendment is passed, all manpower recruitment agencies in the Philippines are required to purchase an insurance coverage for the worker, which will underwrite any litigation expenses in court and his repatriation if he runs away as a result of maltreatment, violation of labour contract, physical and verbal abuse,” he said.
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