The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration yesterday issued a resolution on the deployment ban for newly hired domestic workers to Kuwait.
The POEA said in Governing Board Resolution No. 01, Series of 2020 that the ban shall be effective immediately.
“With the recent reported cases of maltreatment and deaths involving OFWs in Kuwait, specifically the death of OFW Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende, the DoLE Secretary (Silvestre Bello III), after consulting DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Undersecretary Brigido Dulay, issued a memorandum dated Jan. 2, 2020 to POEA to immediately convene the Governing Board for the immediate issuance of a partial deployment ban involving Visa 20 (domestic workers) new hires and ‘balik manggagawa.’ The said memorandum also instructed the POEA to include a moratorium on the processing and verification of individual contracts and additional job order for the same category of workers,” the resolution said.
“Now therefore, the POEA Governing Board…resolves to adopt the said memorandum and effect a deployment ban for newly hired domestic workers to Kuwait effective immediately,” it added.
A moratorium on the verification, accreditation, and processing of individual contracts and job order for the same category of workers shall also be effected, the resolution said.
“Resolved further, that all overseas employment certificates for the same category of workers bound for Kuwait issued on or before 5 p.m. of Jan. 3, 2020 shall be valid for deployment,” it added. (Leslie Aquino)
