The outcomes of the Filipino ticket debacle will have potentially incredibly
wide reaching implications...for the EU, for shipowners, for training centres
and for those crews who spend their lives doing what has become known as a
"Giggsy".
There is a term for it, and as such "Marital misunderstandings" are being
blamed for Filipino seafarers' reluctance to admit they are married when having
to declare who they want their wages to be sent to.
The gentle phrase is meant to disguise the fact many Filipinos are separated
but not divorced from their wives (or husbands) and some even have secret
second families abroad.
The Philippines is, of course, one of only three countries in the world where
divorce is still illegal, (come on quiz fans...where are the others? Give up?
Ok, Malta and the Vatican State).
The rather humorous "Carry On" feel to the story hides a deeper problem. For
employers it becomes almost impossible to know where to send wages, and it gets
particularly tough working out who should be the beneficiary when compensation
has to be paid after a fatal accident.
However it seems the hesitancy to send "money to the missus" is based on a
misunderstanding. Filipino crews are free to send their remittance of salaries
to other beneficiaries whether a spouse, mother, brother or child.
According to Alejandro Padaen, director of the adjudication office at the
Philippines Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) it seems that Filipino
seafarers wrongly believe their government can dictate who it should be paid
too, but they can't. It seems the government doesn't care who the cash comes
too, just so long as it gets back to the country.
In essence, seafarers can have all the marital misunderstandings they like,
just so long as they don't make money mistakes.
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