Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has lauded the Philippine Embassy and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Brunei Darussalam for orchestrating effort to ensure that Flipino domestic workers in that country receive appropriate protection, including proper wages of not less than USD400 a month as specified under the DOLE’s household service workers reform package.

“I am happy that our POLO, in coordination with the Philippine Embassy in Brunei, has moved fast to carry out our directive to our labor attaches to make it very forcefully known that vulnerable workers, such as domestic workers, must not receive less than USD400 in monthly salaries, in addition to there welfare and protection measures,” Baldoz said after Labor Attache to Brunei Violeta D. Illescas reported that Philippine Ambassador Nestor Z. Ochoa has already taken a concrete step by informing the commissioner of the Brueni Labor Department about the HSW reform package.