Employers urged to give kasambahay the chance to go to school

EMPHASIZING the right of everyone to have access to education, the head of the Senate committee on labor has called on employers to allow their household workers who want to study to enroll and secure a diploma.

Senate president pro tempore Jinggoy Estrada, chairman of the Senate committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, said that in compliance with the recently enacted Batas Kasambahay or Republic Act 10361, employers must not deprive domestic workers, including nursemaid or yaya, cook, gardener, laundry person and the likes the right to education and training.