The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) vowed help to abroad Filipino staff (OFWs) affected by the visa suspension in Kuwait and different staff in misery overseas, in keeping with a “24 Oras” report by Oscar Oida.
A complete of 815 OFWs have been presupposed to go to Kuwait however have been immediately stopped because of the visa suspension.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is speaking with the Kuwaiti authorities to see the way it can untangle the difficulty.
Meanwhile, the DMW mentioned it continues to research the dying of an OFW in Hongkong, who was seen cleansing her employer’s home windows when she fell.
“We had meetings with HK employees compensation office because the OFW is covered by these compensations. She is also covered by an insurance amounting to 15,000 dollars. We will facilitate these claims,” DMW Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople mentioned.
The Hong Kong authorities and DMW are working collectively for the repatriation of the sufferer’s stays to the Philippines.
Apart from this, the DMW can be trying into the OFWs affected by the disaster in Sudan. At least 540 Filipinos have been repatriated with the assistance of the Egyptian authorities.
A quantity are nonetheless caught on the Port of Sudan and needing evacuation.
On Sunday, Ople is scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia to make clear the method of claiming again the wages of greater than 10,000 OFWs who have been fired however not paid in 2015.—Sherylin Untalan/LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
