A watered down Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 08/27/2024

“Fairness and social justice demand that we give them all that they are due—as a Filipino seafarer who sacrificed and as a human being.” A declaration by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen in Castillon vs…

Execution bond removed in the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 06/04/2024

The latest version of the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers deleted the contentious provision on the execution bond. “This provision makes no sense. The reason a seafarer is asking for those benefits is because he has nothing…

Execution bond in the Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers is anti-labor and unconstitutional

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 12/12/2023

The bi-cameral committee deliberated last week the Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers that omitted the controversial escrow deposit but contained  an equally anti-labor and unconstitutional provision on execution bond. With the proposed provision, the seafarer may move…

Magna carta should expand, and not limit, the seafarers’ rights

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 11/28/2023

Seafarers will be ‘penalized’ by the escrow provision that will downplay their rights guaranteed by the constitution instead of protecting and promoting their welfare. With the upcoming bicameral committee meetings on the proposed Magna Carta for Filipino…

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