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The Department of Migrant Workers is still in transition: DFA

MANILA, Philippines β€” The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Thursday that the seven migration agencies that will be absorbed by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) will continue under the jurisdiction of their parent agency until the DMW’s constitution criteria are met.

The newly founded DMW would only be fully constituted after the following conditions were completed, according to Section 23 of Republic Act 11641, which established the DMW:

  • There is an appropriation in the 2023 General Appropriations Act; – There are effective implementing rules and regulations (IRR); and – There is a staffing pattern.

“At this time, the DMW is in the middle of its two-year transition phase, and it has yet to publish its Implementing Rules and Regulations, design its employment pattern, and prepare its budget proposal,” the DFA said in a statement.

The DFA stated that it fully supports DMW’s efforts to become fully operational as soon as feasible in order to fulfill its goal of safeguarding the rights of all overseas Filipino workers.

“Until such time as the legal requisites for the DMW to be regarded fully established,” it noted, “all migration agencies to be subsumed are still under the jurisdiction and supervision of their individual parent agency.”

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the destiny of the OFW department would be determined by the next administration in a subsequent tweet on Thursday.

“The new department will be established by the next administration. We are not paying monies to fictitious officials from a non-existent office “he stated

“While we are in charge of OFW affairs, we will keep the cash set aside by Senator Franklin Drilon for DFA to continue providing consistently honest service to OFWs,” he added.

The Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs (OUMWA), which is part of the Department of Labor, is one of the seven offices that will be absorbed into the new agency.

The International Labor Affairs Bureau, the National Reintegration Center for OFWs, the National Maritime Polytechnic, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, the Office of the Social Welfare Attache, and all Philippine Overseas Labor Offices are among the offices that would be brought under DMW.

Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola indicated in February that an IRR should be released on April 18 and the staffing pattern by June 3.

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