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Overseas Filipino Workers who will leave Kuwait may find an alternative working place with Russia and China as
the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said that it is looking at other countries where overseas Filipino workers can be deployed after being repatriated from Kuwait.
At least 800 undocumented OFWs in Kuwait are ready to go home in accordance with the order of President Rodrigo Duterte after reports of brutal deaths suffered by Filipino workers there. The president said it is unacceptable and thus, ordered the total deployment ban for OFWs bound to Kuwait.
"Those who want to go home can do so within 72 hours," Duterte said.
President Duterte was agitated after learning that a Filipina whose body was found in a freezer who had been there for about 2 years after her Lebanese employer and his Syrian wife believed to murder her before fleeing Kuwait. It was just the recent death in the Gulf country which is home to at least 250,000 OFWs.
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Bello assured each repatriated OFW can find new jobs under the government's reintegration program.
"They will given livelihood. If they are looking for a job, tey can work here; we're looking for teachers, we're looking for skilled workers," Bello said.
The labor chief also said that some of the OFWs may opt to stay in the Philippines as the government's massive infrastructure push is expected to generate millions of jobs at home.
"With the forthcoming infrastructure project of the president, we are talking of more than 2 milion jobs a year, starting this year, until the end of his term."
Bello said the Philippines may lift the ban if Kuwait signs a memorandum of agreement, which will bar employers from confiscating OFWs' passports, among others.
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