The
old man from Albay is on attack mode again.
Albay
Rep. Edcel Lagman has made
news again that he is not agreeing to the reasoning of Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin’s stand that it is unconstitutional to
impose temporary ban on our health professionals going abroad amid the threat
of the novel coronavirus 2019 pandemic the country is facing.
The
Albay representative reminded Locsin that the rights to travel and
non-impairment of contracts “are not absolute and are subject to restrictions
or limitations which the State may enforce in exercise of its police power.”
Albay rep. Edcel Lagman and DFA Teddy Boy Locsin (photo credit to owner) |
Lagman stressed that
no less than the 1987 Constitution under Sec. 6 of Art. III on the Bill of
Rights provides that “[n]either shall the right to travel be impaired except in
the interest of national security, public safety or public health, as may be
provided by law.”
“The temporary ban
on overseas employment of doctors, nurses and other health care workers imposed
by the Governing Board of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA) on April 2, 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic is constitutional,”
said Lagman.
Lagman explained
that the enforcement of the ban on foreign deployment of migrant workers “has
been duly delegated by the legislature under the established standards of
national interest or public welfare to the POEA Governing Board.”
He reminded his
former colleague that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) “has to be merely
consulted but it has no veto power over the decision to terminate or ban
foreign employment.”
Earlier, Locsin
slammed Department of Labor (DOLE) particularly the Philippine Overseas
Employment Administration (POEA) for the imposition
of a temporary ban on overseas employment of medical professionals amid the
country’s COVID-19 crisis, saying that it’s against every Filipino’s
constitutional right to travel.
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