Maritime stakeholders have asked Malacañang’s intervention over the recent order of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) asking manning agencies to pay for the cost of the mandatory quarantine of returning seafarers. Instead, they urged that the government foot the bill required for quarantines caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
President Rodrigo Duterte was asked by manning agencies led by the Joint Manning Group (JMG), Filipino Association of Mariners Employment Inc. (FAME) as well as maritime unions Associated Marine Officers and Seafarers’ Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP) and the United Filipino Seafarers (UFS) to intervene to avoid the manning agencies going bankruptcy.
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