June 2015 242 22,860 28, Monitoring and enforcing the Household Service Workers (HSW) policy Female-dominated Household Service Workers or domestic workers is the top single job category for OFWs. It comprises about a third of total deployed new hires. (See Table 7 below) Compliance with the Household Service Workers (HSW) policy reforms remains a daunting challenge to government. Currently, monitoring is through cases or complaints lodged by migrant domestic workers. It has been observed however that migrants will not automatically complain or lodge a report of rights' violation and just endure the situation lest it will cost them their jobs.

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