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Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz talks to Fiona Fleck about the health worker migration policy of the Philippines and discusses the challenges faced by the WHO Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel.

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  • A: I worked in labour arbitration as a lawyer in government for more than 20 years before taking the position of Undersecretary for Labour Relations and Management at the Department of Labour and Employment in the late 1990s

  • A: Yes, one of my roles was heading up the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and I worked on a number of labour law cases, which involved recruitment violations, contract term violations, contract substitution and misrepresentation, to illegal recruitment and human trafficking

  • As administrator of the POEA for almost eight years and Secretary of Labour and Employment for six years, where I chaired both the POEA Governing Board and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Board of Trustees, I was responsible for opening the foreign markets where we send our nurses and other health workers

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Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz: balancing domestic and international needs for health workers Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz talks to Fiona Fleck about the health worker migration policy of the Philippines and discusses the challenges faced by the WHO Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel. Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel and, in

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