The Seoul Metropolitan Government and Ministry of Employment and Labor announced Friday that the pilot program for Filipino domestic caregivers will be extended by a year.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Sunday announced that it abolished nighttime curfews for Filipino nannies and would pay their salaries twice a month to improve their working and residential conditions.
Seoul's Filipino nanny program has operated for one month so far, but the pilot has been marred by disputes over low wages, curfews and unauthorized departures.
Seoul's new pilot program for Filipino domestic caregivers is drawing significant interest from Gangnam, possibly because its inhabitants are among the few families able to afford the higher-than-anticipated costs of hiring foreign nannies.
It is the duty of politics to persuade the people and draw out a grand consensus.
The central bank released a report recommending that domestic laborers from abroad be brought over but paid below the standard minimum wage, sparking backlash.
Political parties in Korea are proposing major policies to appeal to the older generation ahead of the April general elections.
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