Hearings on the proposed establishment of new government departments, including one solely to handle concerns of overseas Filipino workers, have received the green light to proceed, according to Senator Joel Villanueva.
Villanueva said the body’s rules committee decided on Monday to allow several standing committees to proceed with hearing bills on establishing new government departments alongside the proposed rightsizing measure which seeks to trim the “excess fat” in the bureaucracy.
“This is a welcome development. We will resume the committee hearings into the overseas Filipino department bills,” he said.
“The pandemic has exposed the weakness of our policies on OFWs, particularly our reintegration program to help them transition back to the local labor force,” said Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee.
“We support the principles of rightsizing, especially because we have been raising the issue of unfilled positions and contractuals in government for the longest time,” he added.
“We will do our best to tackle all issues and hear all sides being raised in this particular measure in the Committee on Labor,” the lawmaker continued in the rules committee meeting on Monday morning.
“Who knows that this could be a model for rightsizing done right,” Villanueva said.
He said the challenge ahead is to ensure that the proposed DOFil would mean better lives for OFWs and their families and decent job opportunities, here or overseas.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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