President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said that there is a strong possibility that the deployment ban for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) could be extended to other countries with many cases of abuse and maltreatment.
“We are doing an audit now (to) find out the places where we deploy Filipinos and our countrymen suffer brutal treatment and human degradation,” Duterte said.
“We are doing an audit now (to) find out the places where we deploy Filipinos and our countrymen suffer brutal treatment and human degradation,” Duterte said.
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President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would extend his ban on sending workers to Kuwait and other countries as well if investigations showed Filipinos were being seriously abused by employers elsewhere.
The Philippines has suspended the deployment of workers to Kuwait since last month after Duterte said the abuse was unchecked and had been a cause for several Filipino household workers there to end their own life.
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More than 2 million Filipinos are working in Kuwait and other Middle East countries, including Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, but many cases of abuse have also been reported elsewhere.
They often work as domestic helpers, construction workers, engineers and nurses.
Kuwait has invited Duterte for a visit,in attempt to mend diplomatic ties.The Philippine government wants Kuwait to sign a memorandum of agreement concerning the safety of Filipinos before the ban can be lifted.
Duterte has said his long-term aim is to slow, if not end the exodus abroad by boosting the local economy and generating jobs that would provide workers with decent jobs and sufficient income.
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