Filipino Overseas Contract Workers: Their Families and Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Stella P. Go ◽  
Leticia T. Postrado
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2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Harsono . ◽  
Bagoes Widjanarko ◽  
Priyadi Nugraha Prabamurti

Penerapan perilaku hidup bersih dan sehat pada tatanan rumah tangga di Indonesia pada tahun 2015, baru mencapai 55%. Padahal dari sisi perilaku per indikator idealnya diatas 80%. Faktor risiko timbulnya Penyakit Tidak Menular(PTM) antara lain karena gaya hidup seperti merokok, obesitas, inaktivitas, peminum alcohol dan narkoba. Lemahnya upaya preventif dan promotif dalam upaya kesehatan masyarakat (UKM) disebabkan salah satunya oleh distribusi tenaga promotif preventif di Puskesmas masih belum merata.. Keberadaan tenaga kontrak Promotor Kesehatan di Puskesmas diharapkan mampu menjawab kekurangan tenaga promotif preventif di Kabupaten Indramayu. Namun keberadaan mereka menjadi prokontra sehingga dapat berpengaruh pada kinerja dalam pelayanan promosi kesehatan di Puskesmas.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kinerja tenaga kontrak promotor kesehatan dalam pelayanan promosi kesehatan Puskesmas di Kabupaten Indramayu. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan rancangan studi cross sectional. Besar sampel adalah 35 orang. Analisis data secara univariat, bivariat dengan Chi square dan multivariat dengan regresi logistik. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa kinerja tenaga kontrak promotor kesehatan dalam pelayanan promosi kesehatan Puskesmas di Kabupaten Indramayu sebagian besar responden berkinerja tinggi (51,4%). Hasil uji statistic menunjukan bahwa terdapat hubungan antara pengetahuan (p=000), kemampuan diri (p=0,000), persepsi beban kerja (p=0,011), motivasi (p=0,010), imbalan (p=0,024) dan sarana prasarana (p=0,001) dengan kinerja tenaga kontrak promotor kesehatan dalam pelayanan promosi kesehatan Puskesmas di Kabupaten Indramayu. Faktor yang memiliki pengaruh paling kuat terhadap kinerja tenaga kontrak promotor kesehatan adalah faktor pengetahuan dengan nilai Odds Ratio (OR=17,84 95% CI=1,99-149,5) dan kemampuan diri (OR=17,36 95% CI=1,4-220). Rekomendasi pada penelitian ini adalah perlu adanya pelatihan e-learning dan in-house training, pembinaan tenaga kontrak, dan penyediaan sarana prasarana promosi kesehatan. Abstract The application of clean and healthy life behavior at household order in Indonesia in 2015, had just reached 55%. From the behavior side, where every indicator should be above 80% as the ideal one. The weakness of preventive and promotion effort in accordance with the community health efforts, one of the reasons is because the distribution of the health preventive and promotion agent into the community health centre is not all totally covered yet. The presence of the out-sourcing health promoter agent in the community’s health center is expected to be able to supply the lack of health preventive and promotion agent in Indramayu. However, their presence become pros and cons, which can influence to the performance in theservice of health promotion in community’s health centre. This research aimed to analyze the elements which influence their performance to carry out health promotion service in every community’s health centre in Indramayu. Type of observational study with cross sectional design.The population in this study amounted to 105 people, consisting of 35 contract workers, 35 heads of Puskesmas, and 35 co-workers contract workers.The sampling technique is purposive sampling in total population or saturated sampling, so the same sample size is 105 people. The data are analyzed by univariat, bivariat method with Chi square and multivariate with logistic regression. The results of this study indicate that the performance of health promotion contract workers in health promotion service of Puskesmas in Indramayu Regency most of the respondents are high performers (51.4%). Based on the test of Chi-Square, it shows that the elements related to the out-sourcing health promoter in carrying out the health champagne service at community’s health centre in Indramayu are knowledge (score p=000), self ability (p=0,000), duty perception (p=0,011), motivation (p=0,010), reward (p=0,024), means and infrastructures (0,001). The most influence factors to the performance to the out-sourcing health promoter in carrying out the health champagne service at community’s health centre are knowledge factor (p=0,009) with the OR score=17,84 95% CI=1,99-149,5.Therefore, as the recommendation, the training for the candidates of health promoters, e-learning, in-house training, and also the out-sourcing coaching as well, and providing means and infrastructures of health promotion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Gasparri ◽  
Peter Ikeler ◽  
Giovanna Fullin

We investigate trade union strategies in fashion retail, a sector with endemic low wages, precarity and a representation gap. Unions in Milan organized ‘zero-hours contract’ workers, while their counterparts in New York established an alternative channel of representation, the Retail Action Project. We argue, first, that the dynamics of both cases are counterintuitive, displaying institution-building in the USA and grassroots mobilization in Italy; second, union identity stands out as a key revitalizing factor, since only those unions with a broad working-class orientation could provide an effective representation for fashion retail workers.


Jurnal Akta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Aldila Marselli ◽  
Sri Endah Wahyuningsih

Reforms in the field of employment law is done with the purpose to improve and enhance the quality of labor and personnel welfare. Reformation in the field of employment law begins with the issuance of Act No. 21 of 2000 concerning Trade Union / Labor United. Then followed with the release of Act No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower. Problems in this reasearch: (1) To identify and analyze the Implementation of the Employment Agreement in the Specific Time (PKWT) At the National Land Agency of Kendal. (2) To identify and analyze the forms of legal protection for workers at National Land Agency of Kendal with the Specific Time of Work Agreement (PKWT). The results of this study are: (1) Implementation of the Employment Agreement in the Specific Time (PKWT) at the Land Office of Kendal by implementing probation on each worker who recruits including contract workers. Which it is not supposed to apply probation at a certain time and labor agreements remain to be done if the employment agreement becomes null and void. (2) The legal protection of workers / laborers at Specific Time Work Agreement (PKWT) inemployeein practice has not run optimally, given the frequent violations, because of the vagueness of the rules on the implementation of the Employment Agreement for specific time periods, in providing protection against labor law for employees in the Land Office of Kendal.Keywords: Legal Protection; Labor Contract; the National Land Agency.


2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsy Verhofstadt ◽  
Dieter Verhaest ◽  
Eddy Omey

The profile of permanent and temporary contract workers: An investigation among Flemish school leavers The profile of permanent and temporary contract workers: An investigation among Flemish school leavers We investigate the employment (jobless – employed) and contractual (temporary – permanent) status of Flemish youngsters three months after leaving school by means of a bivariate censored probit model. Our results clearly show a division among school leavers. Some groups such as women, non-natives, individuals without work experience and/or driving licence and those entering the labour market during an economic downturn have a lower probability to find a job. Moreover, they often have a lower probability to get a permanent contract if they manage to find a job despite their disadvantageous profile. Although the type of the contract partly results from institutional differences, these contractual differences among school leavers also show up after controlling for firm size and sector of employment.


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