PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has appoint Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) officer-in-charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac as secretary of the agency, according to a statement by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).

Mr. Cacdac had been appointed as officer-in-charge of the agency after the death of former Migrant Workers Secretary Maria Susana “Toots” V. Ople in August last year.

He had served as a DMW undersecretary and the executive director of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Philippine Overseas Workers Welfare Employment Administration (POEA). — John Victor D. Ordoñez