{"id":141433,"date":"2017-12-22T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141433"},"modified":"2017-12-22T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:09:23","slug":"scrutinize-private-job-offers-to-libya-filipinos-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/22\/scrutinize-private-job-offers-to-libya-filipinos-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutinize private job offers to Libya, Filipinos warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109842\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109842\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png\" alt=\"Under these schemes, workers are usually advid to travel first as tourists to other Asian cities to secure their Libyan working visas there. \u2029(PNA photo)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png 220w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under these schemes, workers are usually advid to travel first as tourists to other Asian cities to secure their Libyan working visas there. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.pna.gov.ph\/source\/DFA%20logo.png\">(PNA photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 Prospective workers should carefully scrutinize private job offers in Libya, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) warned on Friday, as it noted existing employment ban in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All workers who wish to be employed in Libya should follow government regulations and pass through the POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration),&#8221; the DFA said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the present Alert Level 2, for the safety of all parties, the deployment of new workers to Libya is still not possible,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, the Libyan Embassy in Manila asked the DFA to reevaluate its assessment given last September 2016, which downgraded Alert Level 4 in Libya to Alert Level 2.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli, the DFA said overseas Filipino workers in Libya face two natural difficulties: their safety and security and their ability to send their earnings back to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on actual feedback from the few remaining Filipino workers in Libya, the required infrastructure and mechanisms for remitting their hard-earned salaries are still in the offing,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeign currency is scarce in Libya, and in the competition for this scarce resource, foreign workers lose out to uncontrollable economic and political forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From its end, the DFA said it &#8220;has been constantly monitoring the situation in Libya for the welfare and benefit of prospective Filipino workers in Libya.&#8221; Such offers for employment &#8220;circumvent&#8221; the safety features set up by the Philippines through so-called backdoor deployment schemes, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Under these schemes, workers are usually advid to travel first as tourists to other Asian cities to secure their Libyan working visas there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is illegal recruitment, which is frowned upon by the Libyan government,&#8221; the DFA warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Prospective workers should carefully scrutinize private job offers in Libya, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) warned on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40120,40119],"class_list":["post-141433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-filipinos-warned","tag-scrutinize-private-job-offers-to-libya","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}