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KUWAIT CITY, March 10: A breakthrough has appeared with regard to the end of the crisis related to shortage of domestic workers in the country, which was exacerbated by the measures taken by the authorities due to the COVID- 19 pandemic and the ensuing insane rise in costs, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting informed sources. They indicated that the Federation of Filipino Domestic Labor Offices has begun coordinating with the offices in Kuwait to submit recruitment applications.
The sources affirmed that Filipino domestic workers will start coming to the country again this month, and this will ease the severity of the crisis as the holy month of Ramadan approaches.
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+ January 09, 2021 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Friday, January 8, 2021, said it found no reason to recall and suspend Nasser Mustafa as labor attache to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia over his dispute with a Filipino expat couple.
Mustafa, however, has been transferred to another post overseas in the spirit of cooperation and due courtesies,” said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III.
In a letter to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Bello asked that Mustafa’s exit/re-entry visa be reinstated to allow him to wind up his official functions and personal affairs in Riyadh.
Bello had approved the recommendation of DOLE s Legal Service, which found no substantial evidence to prove the allegations of corruption and sexual harassment filed by Filipino couple Herbert and Aireen Mayores against Mustafa.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Friday that there is no compelling reason nor legal basis to place Labor Attaché (Labatt) Nasser Mustafa under preventive suspension following the dismissal of the criminal charges filed against him.
In a letter addressed to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, he said the agency’s legal service recommended the dismissal of the charges filed against Mustafa after conducting a “thorough review on the complaints submitted by the Mayores couple and evidence presented by both parties.”
The recommendation was affirmed by the Labor Secretary as well as the Undersecretary for Legal and International Affairs cluster.
Labor Attaché (Labatt) Nasser Mustafa
(Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Riyadh)
This came after an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) couple filed a complaint against Mustafa last year before the Philippine Embassy for acts of lasciviousness and sexual harassment that reportedly occurred in the morning of Feb. 13, 2020 inside the labor attache’s office in Riyadh when she was following up some job orders on behalf of her sponsor.
On Oct. 14, the couple directed the Philippine Embassy to seek assistance after sensing that their jobs were already at stake due to the alleged pressure being employed by Mustafa’s office against their employers and sponsors. But the labor attaché, in turn, charged the nationals with cyberlibel.