TIM eMagazine Vol.3 Issue 11
POEA
allows return of
OFWs to Libya
G
ood news to
interested
Filipinos who
would like to
work again in
Libya.
In an
advisory, the
Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration its Governing Board has issued a resolution allowing
the processing and deployment of Filipinos returning to their
previous job in Libya.
GB Resolution No. 1, series of 2019, the Board said the decision
came after the Department of Foreign Affairs, with the concurrence
of the National Security Council, lowered the Crisis Alert Level in
Libya from Alert level 3 (Voluntary Repatriation Phase) to Level 2
(Restriction Phase).
POEA Administrator
Usec. Bernard P.
Olalia
Credit: dole.gov.ph
DOLE Secretary Silvestre
H. Bello, chairman of the
POEA Governing Board
Credit : dole.gov.ph
The Overseas Filipino Workers Organization – Benghazi
(OFWO-B) has previously appealed to the government to exclude
professionals such as engineers, company workers, nurses and
teachers from the travel ban to Libya.
POEA, however, clarified that the lifting of the deployment ban
does not include newly-hired workers and seafarers.
In November 2018, the POEA Board has issued Board Resolution
No. 8 imposing a total deployment ban on the processing and
deployment of newly-hired workers as well crew change and shore
leave of Filipino seafarers to Libya but allowed the processing and
deployment of returning workers under specified skill categories
but subject to specific conditions.
Secretary Silvestre H. Bello, chairman of the POEA Governing
Board signed the new resolution with POEA Administrator Bernard
P. Olalia and board members Estrella S. Hizon, Alexander E.
Asuncion, and Felix M. Oca. www.poea.gov.ph
GB Resolution No. 1, series of 2019, the
Board said the decision came after the
Department of Foreign Affairs, with the
concurrence of the National Security
Council, lowered the Crisis Alert Level
in Libya from Alert level 3 (Voluntary
Repatriation Phase) to Level 2 (Restriction
Phase).
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