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.