00:00Skilled Filipino workers are in high demand all over the planet.
00:04However, the competition has grown stiffer and broader so the Department of Migrant Workers
00:09needs to engage more internationally with employers from different countries to get
00:14up to speed with technology and best trade practices.
00:18Hence, participation in the Overseas Labor Market Forum was a no-brainer as we hear more
00:24from our Bien Manalo.
00:29Continued strengthening and deepening of bilateral relations with employers from different countries.
00:35This was assured by the Department of Migrant Workers at the Overseas Labor Market Forum
00:40today.
00:41The agency will focus further on the promotion of bilateral cooperation and multilateral
00:47engagements that will cater to the welfare of the overseas Filipino workers.
00:52Also enhancing their safe, ethical, transparent and sustainable mobility.
00:58We are aggressive on what we call bilateral labor relations, engagements, bilateral labor
01:04diplomacy.
01:05The agency's relationship with different sectors continues to enhance the local job market
01:11as well as providing training for the upskilling of workers.
01:15The TMW also ramped up its campaign against illegal recruiters and human traffickers.
01:21This includes the Anti-Illegal Recruitment and Trafficking in Person Campaign or AIRTIP.
01:27We will always have to assume that illegal recruitment and human trafficking is a scourge
01:31that continues.
01:32We can't rest because if not, more will be victims.
01:36Meanwhile, the DMW announced that Japan is scheduled to recruit over 800,000 Pinoy workers
01:43in the next five years.
01:45More than 20,000 of them are headed to the automobile industry to work as taxi drivers.
01:50The DMW targets to open two more migrant workers' offices in Bangkok, Thailand and
02:06Guam before the year ends.
02:09This is an addition to the two offices already opened.
02:12They plan to build four or five more offices in Africa, Asia and Europe next year.
02:18D.N. Manalo from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
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