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Josephine “Olive” Parilla
Homenet Philippines
HOMENET PHILIPPINES
• The vision of Homenet Philippines is “a society that recognizes the human rights of all workers, both formal and informal, women and men, without any discrimination based on gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and other differentiating factors, towards the social, political, and economic empowerment of homebased workers through their own organized groups and networks”.
• For its mission, Homenet Philippines will facilitate the consolidation of all homebased workers, particularly women in the country, and develop their capability to effect changes in policies, legislation, programs and services in their interest.
OBJECTIVES/ GOALS• Empower homebased workers, particularly women, as one of the main components
of the informal economy which absorbs the majority of all working people; • Facilitate the organization and consolidation of homebased workers throughout the
Philippines towards a common transformative agenda, and an integrated and comprehensive system of programs and services to benefit them that will involve all stakeholders;
• Develop the capabilities of homebased workers to gain visibility, recognition, participation, and representation in relevant decision-making bodies of government (national government agencies, local government units, government owned and controlled corporations, government financing institutions, etc.), trade unions, cooperatives, development organizations, and other relevant groups; and
• Improve access to productive resources, social protection and justice
OBJECTIVES/ GOALS
Members of Homenet Philippines
• Homenet Philippines is a broad coalition of twenty (23) diverse groups from the national down to the local membership based organizations with homeworker constituencies mostly women;
• Has a total numbers of more than 70,000.00.
INVISIBILITY IN STATISTICS & LACK OF
REPRESENTATION/RECOGNITION
LACK OF ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES
LACK OF ACCESS TO SOCIAL SECURITY, JUSTICE & PROTECTIONOF WORKPLACES & PROTECTION
FROM VIOLENCE
Macaraya, 1999: The NewEmployment Relations..Phils.
Rigid EmploymentRegular Employment(Rigid Employment)
Jobs & Servicecontracting
Labor Contracting
FLEXIBLE
EMPLOYM TN
Part-time
Casualworker
Homeworker
Commission-paid
Boundary
Contractualworker
Gender & Employment 1. Gender gaps in male-female economic participation rates have been
narrowing. (However, these “improvements” in women’s employment are occurring during a period of declining real wages and bad working conditions for workers).
2. Improvements in women’s access to credits, information and markets3. Agricultural sector declined while the service sector expanded4. Increased employment of women in export-oriented industries5. New service sector jobs (IT such as call centers….)6. While new service jobs were created, in the garments industrty, jobs
were lost.7. Increasing feminization of new hires deployed overseas.8. “Brain-drain” and deskilling of Filipino workers continue to be noted
Source: NCRFW Report on the “State of Filipino Women, 2001-2003 Paper Presentation on OSH in CEPZ, OSCH Conference, Oct. 14, 1999 Jeanne Francis Illo, Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College
Female & Male Labor Force Participation Rate1999-2005Source : NSO
80.3
81.6
Male
48.4
49.9
Female
Labor force participation rate
0.410.39.931.92000
0.49.79.331.71999
Male-female gap
MaleFemaleMale-female gap
Unemployment rateYear
2001 52.8 82.3 29.5 10.4 9.4 -1.0
2002 51.7 80.8 29.1 10.2 10.1 -0.1
2003 51.1 83.4 32.5 10.3 10.0 -0.3
2004 50.2 82.9 32.7 11.7 10.4 -1.3
2005 49.8 79.8 30.0 7.3 7.4 0.1
What are the most important issues it is trying to address as a
network?• Invisibility• Social protection, including occupational safety
and health• Access to resources• Access to justice• Labor rights(MACWIE) , women's rights (Magna
Carta on Women and reproductive Health bill)
1. survival activities2. homeworkers whose employment
relationship is not recognized or protected
3. self-employed and employers who face various barriers and constraints to setting up and operating formal enterprises
(ILC: 2002)
House Bill 1955“An Act Providing For A Magna Carta For
Workers In The Informal Economy, Institutionalizing Mechanism For
Implementation Thereof And For Other Purposes”
Decent Work As a Goal(development-oriented, poverty reduction
focused and gender-equitability)
DEFICITS :
• Poor-quality, unproductive and unremunerative jobs that are not recognized or protected by law
• Absence of rights at work• Inadequate social & legal protection
• Lack of representation and voice
ILC: 2002
ILC 2002 : Integrated and comprehensive strategy to achieve
decent work along the continuum
• Assess where we are now?• Recognize contributions of
the ILO constituents to where we are now?
• Recognize contributions of non-ILO constituents (IS organizations and civil society) to where we are now?
• People-centered plan
DECENT WORK Phil Common
AGENDA
RIGHTS AT WORK
SOCIAL PROTECTION/SECURITY
EMPLOYMENT and ENTERPRISES
PHIL DECENT WORK COMMON AGENDAPHIL DECENT WORK COMMON AGENDA
SOCIAL DIALOGUE
WIS Governance Framework ….(RA 8425++)
Partners W I E
Luzon Visayas Mindanao
Organizing & Monitoring
Advocacy: Policies, Programs,Legislations, projects
Awareness Raising/Capability Building of
LGU’s
Direct Assistance
Participatory Decision-Making
IS,TU’s. NGO’s, PO’s, NGA’s,LGU’s and
Private Sector
1. Social security, justice, protection of workplaces & protection from violence
2. Human development services
3. Asset reform
4. Participation in governance
5. Employment in enterprises & services
• Social security, justice & protection of/at workplaces from violence
• Human Development Services
• Asset Reform
• Participation in governance
• Employment in enterprises
From minimal to integrated approach
How do we link with Trade Unions, locally and internationally?
Locally:
• sponsoring a dialogue with trade unions on ILC 177, re Homeworkers;
• asking TUs to sign resolution for ratification of ILC 177;
• coordinating with TUs on the decent work agenda of the NTAC to include WIE concerns;
• spearheading the formation of MAGNA CARTA OF WORKERS IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR ALLIANCE (MAGCAISA) with the participation
of TUs in the construction works, academe and other civil society groups outside Homenet Phils;
• participating in many Labor Agenda Forum and presentation of HB 1955 (MACWIE);
• presenting WIE concerns on the reproductive health bill, magna carta of in a forum for TUs and other workers' orgs
• celebrating Informal Workers' Day with solidarity support from TUs
Internationally: • Participation of international forum on labor, women
rights together with TUs and other workers' orgs in Asia
• Networking with SEWA, the biggest trade union of homebased workers (1.1 million members) and the first to be recognized by ITUC.
• Supporting the campaign for an ILC on domestic workers as demanded by unions of domestic workers in Asia
• Presenting papers in international ASEAN and Asian conferences on how to bridge the gender and formal/informal divide in the labor movement
What are its successes so far? What are the current challenges?
What are some of the ways to move forward?
Successes: ILO 177 became a priority in the decent work agendaFormation of MAGCAISA Filing of MACWIEWidening of campaign on social security and
protection for WIE through dialogues with SSS, Philhealth, and preparation of shadow report on the ICESCR
Circulation of positions on the Magna Carta of Women, RH bill, ILC 177
Challenges :• Dealing with differences within the network
• Resource generation for sustainability of legislative initiatives which can take years
• Misunderstanding and lack of appreciation from some male TU leaders
• Dealing with harsh realities-- food, fuel, and financial crises as they affect WIE
Ways forward:• Respecting differences, uniting on commonalities,
bonding based on past struggles and successes• Pushing for wider labor unity -- men and women,
formal and informal• Stronger links with both the workers' and the
women's movements• Working for greater national and international
solidarity of the working poor
Thank you