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OWWA Administrator named Acting Labor Chief
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed today Administrator Marianito Roque of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) as Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
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He takes the place of Secretary Arturo Brion, who was appointed by the President to the Supreme Court.
In a statement, Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye said the President “has approved the announcement of the appointment of Marianito Roque as Acting Secretary of Labor."
Roque, who rose from the ranks at the OWWA, was responsible for a number of service improvements involving the special needs of more than eight million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose yearly remittances have been helping shore up the national economy.
Notable among these service improvements are repatriation of thousands of OFWs, including undocumented ones, from strife-torn host countries, and the transformation of the Philippine Postal Bank into an OFW Bank.
The OFW Bank charges less service fees on OFW remittances than other banks.
Roque also spearheaded the opening of the OWWA Hostel and Halfway Home for OFWs, the activation of the modern OFW e-card, and the educational and other scholarship trainings for the less fortunate and returning OFWs including their families.
Roque was one of the select group of young achievers recruited by the late Sen. Blas F. Ople to join his staff when he was named secretary of labor by then President Marcos.
Among the other Ople protégées who made it to the labor department’s top post were Patricia Sto. Tomas, Ruben Torres and Brion, a 1974 bar topnotcher.
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