The government will continue to deploy overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Israel despite the country's announcement that it would ban the entry of all foreign visitors amid the threats brought by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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MANILA - Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Bernard Olalia on Tuesday said they will try to come up with the new guidelines for the deployment of new household service workers (HSWs) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) next month. "We will try. There's still a month but when we are short of time, we will finish that until early next year," Olalia said in a virtual forum Monday. The POEA has temporarily suspended the deployment of newly hired HSWs to Saudi Arabia after Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on November 25 issued a memorandum implementing the suspension in the wake of the abuses committed by a retired general against Filipinos. The order particularly directed the labor attaches in Riyadh, Al Khobar, and Jeddah, to suspend temporarily the processing of newly hired workers. Bello, in a statement on November 27, said the POEA and Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) need to come out with a new set of verification guidelines to
THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) temporarily suspended the deployment of newly hired household service workers (HSW) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) pending the revisions in their standard employment contract. Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre H, Bello III said he issued a memorandum on November 25 implementing the…
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