The increase of labour deployment was due to the construction boom in the region following the newfound strength of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the global petroleum industry.16 13 A K Franck and A Spehar, ‘Women's Labour Migration in the Context of Globalization’, ResearchGate, May 2010, 's_labour_migration. [...] The past decades also witnessed the passage of domestic laws and programmes to strengthen the accountability of the State and to maximise the benefits of migration in development through the steady flow of remittances from Filipino migrant workers. [...] The passage of RA 8042 or the “Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995” deepened the mandate of OWWA to include the repatriation of workers in cases of emergency or calamities and the establishment of a monitoring center for returning migrant workers. [...] In a webinar on the discussion of the Philippine employment recovery in 2021, Ellene Sana from the Center for Migrant Advocacy mentioned the need for the government to provide a skills inventory among Filipino migrant workers to address the information gap on what new skills and knowledge has been acquired by them, and the type of skills that are needed to match the jobs that are available in the. [...] The skills of the organisers in initiating a dialogue with the employers should also be commended for the success of the formation of the 1st domestic workers union in the country - UNITED.
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