kasambahayEvery “kasambahay” (helper/maid) expects significant improvements in her or his living and working conditions following the signing of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 10361 entitled “An Act Instituting Policies for the Protection and Welfare of Domestic Workers.”

Signing the IRR are heads of agencies that are involved in the implementation of the law namely: (L-R) Philippine National Police Provincial Deputy Director Jose Jorge E. Corpuz: Social Security System Officer-in-charge Executive Vice-President Edgar Solilapsi; National Economic and Development Authority Secretary Arsenio Balisacan;  Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz;  Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman;  Department of Health Secretary Enrique Ona;  Department of the Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Austere Panadero; and  Pag-Ibig Fund Vice-President Erlinda M. Francisco.

Under the law, the DSWD is tasked to protect the “kasambahay” against any kind of abuse and maltreatment from their employers.

The Kasambahay Law was signed by President Benigno Aquino III on January 18.