By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Labatt Dizon says online PAOS will have 4 modules and the worker will have to print her own certificate |
Post-arrival orientation seminars for newly deployed
Filipino domestic workers have been suspended by the Philippine Overseas Labor
Office due to the novel coronavirus epidemic.
But the seminars will be replaced by an online PAOS in about
three months, said new Labor Attaché Melchor Dizon in a meeting with Filipino
community leaders at the Consulate on Mar 1.
Labatt Dizon said the online PAOS will consist of four
modules that a newly arrived domestic worker will have to accomplish and submit
using a computer or his/her mobile phone. He/she will then print out an online
certificate.
The mechanics of the online version, however, are still a
grey area. For example, it is still unknown what its components are, how long
the seminar will take online, and how Polo can ensure that the worker did
finish all the modules.
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Issues such as availability of internet connectivity and
device to the new worker, as well as a guarantee that he/she understood the content
of the modules, are also expected to emerge as the online version gets under
way.
Asked for more details, Labatt Dizon said he had instructions to direct media inquiries to the
head office in Manila ,
and only answer questions that had been cleared by Philippine Labor Secretary
Silvestre Bello III.
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The seminars used to be held Monday to Thursday at the Polo
premises on the 18th floor of YF Life Tower at 33 Lockhart Road in Wanchai. Before the
suspension, the PAOS was held for three hours, with about 100 workers attending
each session.
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| PAOS sessions like this are no longer being held because of the coronavirus spread |
But the onset of the Covid-19 contagion in Hong
Kong has forced Polo to suspend the seminar in line with the host
government’s appeal to avoid public gatherings to help fight the spread of the
virus.
“Baka mamaya, pag nagkaroon ng transmission, isa pang
sasabihin sa atin, ‘Bakit mayroon pang ganyang activity?” Labatt Dizon had said
at the Filcom meeting.
“Kaya isu-suspend namin at yung mga agencies mag-iisyu na
lang ng undertaking na isa-submit sa Polo o mag-o-online,” he said.
Labatt Dizon disclosed that the Department of Labor and
Employment has a joint project with the International Labor Organization that
may be finalized on Wednesday, Mar 4.
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