A government-managed insurance policy for OFWs that cushions them in case of mandatory repatriation can help in avoiding situations where the only thing they can hold onto is the money that they can bring home or a P10,000.00 cash included in the repatriation package in the worst case scenario that they were not able to save.
Section 15 of Republic Act 8042 specifically mandates the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), in coordination with appropriate international agencies "to undertake the repatriation of workers in cases of war, epidemic, disasters or calamities, natural and man-made, and other similar events".
The objective of this study was to estimate the financial burden of repatriations in case of illness.
Every case of repatriation poses a large financial burden on employers, and the results indicated a large variation in the average total costs of repatriation for the four case vignettes.
The costing categories prone to sensitivity analysis were the cost of transportation, (helicopter or fuel consumption in case of ship deviations) compensation costs to the repatriated seafarer, the cost of managing the repatriation case, insurance premium increase and the cost of recruiting a new seafarer.
In case of illness, they are protected by international regulations stating that the employers must pay all expenses in relation to repatriation, but very little is known about the cost of these repatriations.
Every month produces new cases of the "repatriation" of antiquities from American museums to their countries of origin.
"Parents may not be in favour of repatriation in forced marriage cases, instead wishing the child to remain and continue with the marriage," he wrote.
This large gap in the cost of repatriation indicates a great heterogeneity in repatriation cases.
Whatever the case, the pace of repatriation efforts is growing.
