The Department of Labor and Employment on Monday issued a manual of procedures in dealing with complaints against trafficking in persons, illegal recruitment and child labor.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the manual would serve as a standard operating procedures in efforts to curb illegal and predatory activities that take advantage of job seekers and to strengthen its mechanism against such menace.

Under Department Circular No. 02, she said the manual also aimed to achieve effective management of cases on trafficking in persons, illegal recruitment and child labor

The manual, Baldoz said,  would provide guidelines to field implementers of proper and correct steps to be taken during receipt of case and its preliminary evaluation; inspection, surveillance, entrapment and arrest; case conference and rescue operation in case a child/children are victims; reintegration and after care of victims; docketing; legal assistance and counseling towards the filing of the case; and in the existence of  probable cause for the filing of criminal and administrative case on illegal recruitment, trafficking in persons, and child labor.

(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/May/22)

Source: http://news.manilastandardtoday.com/2012/05/22/child-labor-manual-out/