Domestic workers have also increased. They work 8-9 hours a day. The discrimination against women has reached egregious levels. Women are not given training. Women are supposed to be offered maternity benefits but the ILO regulations are not being maintained especially in medium and small-sized companies.
Women are out of the market.
There is a general decline of working power. Mr. Eoh spoke on the type of support, feedback and policy advice NGOs have been providing the government in the midst of the Asian financial crisis. With unemployment in May 1998 gauged at 1.49 million, it is anticipated to rise to 1.7 million. Mr. Eoh explained that the top priority of the Ministry of Labor was to ensure that an unemployment insurance program for involuntary terminations continued. Mr. Eoh thought that it would be still another two years before the infrastructure for full unemployment insurance coverage could be extended to the entire work force.