MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The government is now studying the removal of the deployment ban to Libya after Libyan nationals claimed that Libya is already peaceful.
“We have an existing moratorium on sending our OFWs to Libya,” Labor Undersecretary Dominador Say said.
According to Say, he already instructed the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to review the existing deployment ban in the said country.
“I want to have it reviewed because, according to Libyan nationals, there are areas of Libya that are already peaceful, like the oil fields which are protected by the military,” he said.
The POEA in 2011 stopped the deployment of overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Libya due to heightened political unrest there.
The deployment ban was lifted in 2012. But in 2014, the government decided to impose a total deployment ban due to the worsening situation in that country.
