Overseas Filipino group Migrante International declared “a win for OFWs” on Tuesday following a Supreme Court judgment against mandatory advanced SSS payments for OFWs leaving the country.
In a recently released Notice of Judgment issued on November 5, 2024, the Philippine Supreme Court responded to Migrante and Bayan Muna Partylist’s 2019 petition against the anti-OFW provisions of Duterte’s Social Security Act of 2018 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.
The 2018 SSS Act, signed into law by detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, compels all land-based OFWs to enroll and pay contributions to SSS as ‘self-employed’ members, pay the employer’s share in contributions, and pay in advance three months’ worth in SSS contributions before being issues their Overseas Employment Contracts.
Read more here: https://migranteinternational.org/partial-win-vs-dutertes-sss-act/