Filipino embassy issues guidelines for hiring OFWs in Oman

In an advisory released by Embassy of the Philippines in Muscat, all Filipino workers should draw a minimum salary of OMR290 per month. The hiring advisory comes from the Philippine Overseas Labour Office at the office of the Labour Attache and will guide sponsors on the rights of all Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the Sultanate.

“May we remind the sponsors/principal employers and foreign recruitment agencies (FRAs) of the basic rights due to all Filipino workers that are deployed in the Sultanate of Oman,” the advisory read.

Moreover, the advisory listed basic rights of OFWs according to report in Times of Oman:

> Passports should be kept with the worker unless voluntarily entrusted to persons or institution, preferably with FRAs.

> Workers are entitled to a paid leave (day off/rest day) of one day per week.

> Sponsors must pay a month basic salary of not less than USD400 or OMR160 for domestic workers, and more than OMR160 for skilled workers.

> Sponsor must provide decent food or equivalent food allowance not less than OMR30.

> Sponsors must provide suitable and safe accommodation or equivalent accommodation allowance of not less than OMR80.

> Besides, free transportation to and from work or equivalent transportation allowance of not less than OMR20 should be given.

>Provide health and accident insurance valid throughout the period of the working visa/contract.