MANILA, Philippines—The government on Tuesday banned the deployment of overseas Filipino workers to Syria after the Department of Foreign Affairs raised the alert level for that country to 3, a labor official said.
Carlos Cao, head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, said the ban covered both new-hires and the returning workers or those who are just on vacation from Syria.
“Once Alert Level 3 is confirmed all over the country, the deployment of both new hires and balik-mangagawa is banned,” Caos aid.
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