A Composite Legal Team of embassy and labor officials and case officers will tackle OFW cases in a comprehensive and united approach to ensure all avenues are explored towards just resolution of cases. These cases range from maltreatment to sexual and physical abuse. 

The team will be working with select local lawyers of known integrity and competence. Abused OFWs will not be asked to pay fees or commissions to lawyers. They may also change or choose their own lawyers if they wish.
Legal fees will be taken from arbitral awards decreed by a judge or an adjudication mechanism at the investigation level. OFWs will not pay these fees. The local lawyers will work for awards that are just.

This protocol or procedure in working with local lawyers will promote transparency in embassy and Philippine labor office legal assistance.

Also, OFWs will not be forced to settle but will be advised to file cases and go all the way to prosecution. 

In a wider context, the Legal Team will study the existing sponsorship or ‘kafala’ system in Kuwait to assess see if Filipino domestics should still come here. In the sponsorship system, the domestics stay inside the homes where they work. It is inside homes where abuse occurs. In other jurisdictions, domestics ‘stay-out’ and regularly report for work.