PH won’t send OFWs to Kuwait for now

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January 21, 2018
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MANILA – The Department of Labor and Employment suspended the deployment of Philippine workers to Kuwait following the death of seven Filipino employees there.

Labor secretary Silvestre Bello directed the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to stop processing the overseas employment certificates (OECs) of Filipino workers bound for Kuwait.

“We would like to seek justice for our OFWs (overseas Filipino workers), and while the investigation is undergoing, we are suspending the processing and issuance of OECs,” Bello said in a statement. “We are doing this for the utmost protection and welfare of our kababayan.”

But Bello clarified that those who already had a plane ticket and an OEC may already proceed to Kuwait.

Apektado iyong mgadi pa nabibigyan ng OEC,” Bello said in a radio interview. “Iyong mga naisyuhan na, may ticket na, may OEC na, hindi sila covered (ng suspension).”

Bello doubted claims that some of the OFWs who died in Kuwait killed themselves. He has also given investigators a maximum of 15 days to produce results.

President Rodrigo Duterte earlier considered a “total ban” of OFWs in Kuwait after receiving reports of abuses against Filipino workers, many of whom household helpers, in recent months.

Kuwait was the fifth top destination for newly hired and rehired OFWs in recent years, data from POEA showed./PN
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