Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has advised overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Lebanon to take necessary precautions as the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raised an alert over possible instability in that country.
An official said Tuesday that an employee of Lebanon’s national airline MEA was fired after a passenger complained in a social media campaign that the worker humiliated travelers from the Philippines at the Beirut airport and told them over the loudspeaker, “Filipino people, stop talking.”
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has intercepted two Filipino women who concealed their working visas and plane tickets in their underwear in an attempt to fly out to Lebanon despite a deployment ban to that country.
Despite the deployment ban in Lebanon, Lyn was able to work there as a physical therapist. The work was difficult. Her employer offered sexual services to various nationalities in exchange for money. When a customer came to the house, Lyn’s employer would lock her up in the kitchen.
Philippine officials in Beirut urged job seekers to heed the ban on the deployment of workers to Lebanon.
Thirty-one distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Lebanon arrived in Manila through the assistance of the Philippine Embassy in Beirut, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement Friday.
Fifty-three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) recruited from 2009 to 2011 despite a total deployment ban to Lebanon have returned home after being repatriated by the Philippine Embassy in Beirut, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday signed two agreements here to protect the rights of overseas Filipino workers in Lebanon and pave the way for the lifting of the total deployment ban on OFWs coming to the country.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday signed two agreements here to protect the rights of Filipino workers in Lebanon and pave the way for the lifting of a ban imposed by the Philippine government on the deployment of Filipino workers to that country.
Twenty-three Filipinos “in distress”, including a child, were repatriated from Lebanon, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
Foreign Affairs officials are ready to lift overseas deployment bans to Lebanon and Jordan but continue to warn Filipinos against going to protest-wracked Syria where over 60 workers are scheduled for repatriation later this week.
Among the poorest of the poor is where Father Theo Vlugt feels at home. “My Big Boss says in the Bible: What you have done to the poorest of my people, you have done to me,” he says, in his native Amsterdam accent.
