The Philippine House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs, or House Overseas Workers Affairs Committee is a

standing committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

of the

Philippine House of Representatives The House of Representatives of the Philippines ( fil, Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ng Pilipinas, italic=unset, ''Kamara'' or ''Kamara de Representantes'' from the Spanish word ''cámara'', meaning "chamber") is the lower house of Congress, the ...

Jurisdiction

As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the policies and programs which promote and protect the rights and welfare of

Overseas Filipino Workers Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million be ...

(OFWs) including their families.

Members, 19th Congress

Historical members

18th Congress

Member for the Majority

* Nestor Fongwan ( Benguet–Lone,

PDP–Laban Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (), abbreviated as PDP–Laban, is a democratic socialist political party in the Philippines founded in 1982. It was part of the country's ruling party alliance from 1986 to 1992 under the administrat ...

)

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References

External links

House of Representatives of the Philippines
{{Philippine House of Representatives Overseas Overseas Filipino Worker