By Vir B. Lumicao
Philippine Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III has reportedly
narrowed down his choices for the post recently vacated by Labor Attache Jalilo
dela Torre.
Word filtering from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in
Hong Kong indicates that Bello is considering four candidates, although no date
has been set for naming his final choice.
Polo officer-in-charge Antonio Villafuerte said the four people
being mentioned are: former labor attaché in Macau Ramon Pastrana, and
incumbents Nasser Munder in Jeddah, Cesar Chavez at the Manila Economic and
Cultural Office Labor Center in Taipei, and Fidel Macauyag at the MECO-Taichung
Extension Office.
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| Macauyag, CDO's former top prosecutor, is said to be Bello's first choice, but he has a pending case |
Top of the list is said to be Macauyag, a lawyer who was former labor attaché to Jeddah before his posting to Taichung, the second largest city of Taiwan.
He was with the Office of the Prosecutor General before he was
named as one of the eight new attaches of the Department of Labor and
Employment in 2017. Previously, he worked for nine years as city prosecutor of Cagayan
de Oro City.
“I hear Macauyag has his foot inside the door,” a source
told The SUN. But he added that there could be a problem because the candidate
has a pending case before the Ombudsman, which could be why he was moved to
Taichung.
The source explained that officials assigned to Taiwan need
no Ombudsman clearance as it is officially not a diplomatic post but a trade
and cultural office, as the Philippines recognizes Taiwan as part of China.
Another candidate, Munder, is reportedly known among his colleagues
in the Middle East as being too friendly with employment agencies, and “would
be like fish out of the water” if deployed to Hong Kong. He would surely be
targeted by worker advocates if he is moved here.
As for Pastrana, he is widely regarded as not being
experienced enough for Hong Kong, where there are more than 200,000 Filipino
migrant workers, compared with just about a fourth of this figure in Macau,
where he was previously posted.
Chavez, on the other hand, is said to be “too headstrong and
too full of himself,” despite having enough experience.
Whoever is selected will surely face an acid test in Hong
Kong, as he will be succeeding a well-regarded, highly experienced and hardworking labor attaché.
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