The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) held a meeting with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Department of Labor and Employment, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration, and the International Labor Affairs Bureau on streamlining overseas manpower services. In a statement of Wednesday, ARTA Director General Jeremiah Belgica said the process of accrediting manpower agencies and sending Filipino workers abroad “must be streamlined without compromising the safety and security of our [countrymen],” adding that this meant “that we need to restructure the process to retain the requirements and steps truly necessary and eliminate those which are redundant and simply baseless in law or in practice. It also means that all agencies and offices involved should come together and rationalize their processes as one governmental unit.”
