Filipino workers' digitisation project enters second day

A three-year digitalisation project of the Philippines' Migrant Workers Office-Dubai (MWO-Dubai) has been adopted by the two-year-old Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and is now on its second day of its month-long pilot-testing.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Launched on July 7 with 81 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) successfully submitting “within four hours” all the required documents despite “minor technical glitches,” this is the beefed up Optional Online Employment Contract Verification System, guaranteed to be safe and secure as it is compliant with the Data Privacy Act 2022 of the Philippines.

Labour Attache in Dubai and the Northern Emirates John Rio Bautista termed the project as a “game-changing system” because staggered debit/credit card online payment, amounting to Dhs61.50, has been added to the Optional Online Employment Verification System, effected since June 2022 and which was able to certify 50,000 job contracts.

DMW improved the MWO-Dubai project so that OFWs have the choice of adhering to the Philippine Government requirement of job contract verification right in the comfort of their homes or offices.

MWO-Dubai and DataFlow Group, a globally-recognised leader in credentials verification and workforce mobility technology, signed the first Memorandum of Agreement last year and for the enhanced Optional Online Employment Contract Verification System on June 6, 2024.