Senate OKs bill seeking permanent deployment of social welfare attachés 39 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Vanne Elaine TerrazolaThe Senate passed Monday on third and final reading the bill which seeks the permanent deployment of social welfare attachés in countries with large concentration of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Senate Bill 1819 or proposed Act Establishing The Office For Social Welfare Attaché has hurdled the Upper Chamber with 18 affirmative votes and no negatives votes or abstention. The measure, if signed into law, would institutionalize the deployment of social welfare attachés in Philippine embassies to manage cases of OFWs in distress and provide them with adequate and timely social, economic and legal services. Social welfare attaché offices would be created in countries or jurisdictions with the highest concentration of OFWs or cases of Filipino trafficking.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 01, 2018 09:11 UTC