Seek the adoption by the BPO companies and by the Government of best practices to safeguard the health, employment security, wages and other concerns of the workers in the industry.
2. Legal assistance in grievance preparations and handling, including drafting of reply letters to management and actual presence in grievance meetings by BWAP's Grievance Officers and/or its pool of legal counsels.
3. Employment assistance.
4. Free or subsidized skills acquisition or skills upgrading.
5. Free or subsidized attendance to labor education seminars on basic labor laws, leadership, grievance handling, labor-management cooperation, etc.
6. Annual accident insurance coverage.
7. Livelihood and other mutual aid and assistance projects.
8. Free subscription to BWAP Newsletter via its website. Who are qualified to join? All those presently working or intending to work in the BPO and IT industries, and those who accept the BWAP's Constitution and By-Laws. How to join? You may join via the website (www.bpowap.org) or through its organizers/members by accomplishing a membership application form and paying the annual membership fee of Php960.00 (Php80.00/month). Who are the key officers? The organizers and the executive board are composed of students and Master of Industrial Relations degree holders from the UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR). It has as Consultants three (3) deans of SOLAIR: former Deans Jose C. Gatchalian and Rene E. Ofreneo, and the present dean, Atty. Jonathan P. Sale; and professor Dr. Virginia A. Teodosio. The President is Ruben D. Torres who finished his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the Philippines. He was the Secretary of Labor and Employment of President Corazon C. Aquino, and the Executive Secretary of President Fidel V. He is a lecturer of UP-SOLAIR. The General Secretary is Norberto C. Caparas, Jr. who finished his BS in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines and his law degree (Juris Doctor) from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. He earned his Diploma in Industrial Relations (2012) and his Master of Industrial Relations (2013) from UP-SOLAIR where he graduated Valedictorian (Academic Excellence). For more information, please visit www.bpowap.org
