The Filipino Working Group (FWG) in cooperation with the Philippine Embassy is preparing for the most awaited yearly celebration of the Philippine Independence in Oslo, Norway. The Philippine Independence will be celebrated at St. Hanshaugen Park in Oslo this coming 7th of June.

OSLO, Norway -– A Norwegian television featured a Filipina in connection with the expose of local paper Dagavisen on exploitations of au pair (foreign-national domestic) for everything from maid and babysitter to pure slave during its show here Monday night.

“Many consider the au pair as the same as housemaids, only cheaper. If your families need babysitter or maid, (you) must hire people with the same wages and working conditions that (of the) nordmenn (the Norwegian) rather than to exploit people from other countries who come here as an au pair,” Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions (LO) Secretary Trine Lise Sundnes was quoted in the report as saying.