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Filipinos are sometimes embarrassed by being mistaken as domestic workers when they travel outside the Philippines: "Embarrassment arises from their inability to keep social lines from blurring (thereby rendering problematic their position as privileged representatives of the nation) and maintaining a distinction between ‘Filipino’ as the ...
The NCCFA followed its precursor with similar activities. In 1989, it organized a national dialogue on Filipino domestic workers during the International Women's Day celebrations in Toronto. [6] Along with 37 national ethnic organizations across Canada, NCCFA was a member organization of the Canadian Ethnocultural Council. [7]
In 1987, she helped Filipino domestic workers in establishing a local support network, the Ottawa Multicultural Homemakers Association. She was involved in various initiatives such as fundraising activities, workshops and lobbying. In 1989, her UCFAC work also helped organize a national dialogue on domestic workers' issues. [3]
Don Garcia (union organizer) - ILWU Canada president; Virginia Guiang-Santoro - founder of Filipino Domestic Workers Association of Manitoba [23] Ging Hernandez - advocate for domestic care workers and women's rights activist; Juana Tejada - caregiver who campaigned for overseas Filipino workers' (OFW) and immigrants' rights in Canada [24]
Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020.
[A.1470B (Wright)/S.2311-E (Savino)] which extended labor protections to domestic workers. The law, otherwise known as the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, went into effect on November 29, 2010 and gives domestic workers, among other provisions: The right to overtime pay at time-and-a-half after 40 hours of work, or 44 hours
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Tejada, a founding member of the Association of Filipino Women Workers (iWWorkers), was also inspirational to a group of Philippine live-in caregivers, all struggling with cancer and immigration. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] She was hailed as a hero [ 8 ] and the group Migrante International called her a “female OFW par excellence”.