Senator Franklin Drilon on Tuesday said he wants to look into the situation of Filipino on-the-job trainees in Singapore who are allegedly being forced to work in hotels there for half of the minimum wage."They (Singapore hotels) recruit students under the guise of OJT [scheme], they pay them half of what is required under Singapore laws. This is [a] rampant practice in Singapore. This is something that we have to expose," Drilon said after the Senate budget hearing of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Full story
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