RP hopes to fill up jobs in S. Korea
Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Even as the global recession is hitting South Korea’s export-dependent factories, the Philippines still hopes to fill 10,000 jobs left unfilled from last year’s employment permit system (EPS), administrator Jennifer Manalili of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration said Wednesday.
The memorandum of agreement that allows EPS — the government-to-government system by which OFWs are employed in Korea — is currently being negotiated for extension.
Last October 17, both parties agreed to “extend the validity” of the MOU until a new one would be negotiated within the maximum allowable period of three months.
“We still want to explore the [South Korean] market, we do not want to close the doors yet,” Manalili said, agreeing that there have been reports of layoffs of migrant workers from the country.
Moreover, Manalili said there has been no official cancellation of these job orders.
Manalili said the tax component of the Korean language testing fee was one of the thorny issues still being discussed in the MOU negotiations.
She explained that the Korean language testing centers sought to be tax-free in the Philippines.
“But under Philippine laws, there is tax liability when some income is derived. We are awaiting the reply of the BIR [Bureau of Internal Revenue],” she said.
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