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(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has imposed a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. The Department of Labor and Employment announced the ban in a statement after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration Governing Board signed a resolution for the same. The ban was imposed after an autopsy report found that Jeanelyn Villavende, who was killed in the Middle Eastern country, had been sexually abused. Prior to the release of […]
(Eagle News)-The Department of Labor and Employment will implement a partial deployment ban on Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the announcement following the death of Filipina domestic helper Jeanelyn Villavende. Bello said under the partial deployment ban, the deployment of new OFWs will not be allowed. “We will allow the return of the balik manggagawa saka skilled workers pero new di muna tayo magdedeploy,” Bello said. He said the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB96KSEeW-o (Eagle News) – Members of the meat processing industry are now hurting from the total ban imposed by some local government units on processed meat products from Luzon due to the African Swine Fever (ASF) scare. In this report by Eagle News Service reporter Eden Santos, representatives of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors, Inc. (PAMPI) aired their worries on the total ban on their meat products by some LGUs especially from the Visayas […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment has officially ordered a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III signed on Monday the administrative order that puts in place the ban, which came after the discovery of the gruesome death of Joanna Demafelis. Demafelis was found inside the freezer of an apartment left abandoned since 2016. It also came amid investigations into the deaths of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he was mulling imposing a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait following reports of sexual abuses of OFWs there. According to Duterte, the country “lost” four female OFWs in Kuwait in four months. “My advice is, either we talk to them, state the truth, and just tell them that it’s not acceptable anymore or we impose a total ban,” he said. […]
