{"id":211075,"date":"2019-04-23T05:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211075"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:46:38","slug":"dole-readies-jobs-for-ofws-from-strife-torn-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/23\/dole-readies-jobs-for-ofws-from-strife-torn-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE readies jobs for OFWs from strife-torn Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_209382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209382\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209382\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ph7-033117_CADO6-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the countries being considered for deployment of affected Filipino medical workers are Japan, Germany and United Kingdom. (PCOO File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) affected by the crisis in Libya are likely to be deployed to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the countries being considered for deployment of affected Filipino medical workers are Japan, Germany and United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese countries are also in need of health workers so we might consider deploying them there,\u201d Bello said in a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2,600 documented OFWs in Libya, most of them are health workers, according to DOLE data.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bello said a forced repatriation of the Filipinos in Libya is likely due to the escalating violence there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very possible that the Alert Level 3 in Libya will be upgraded to Alert Level 4, which would mean forced repatriation of Filipinos there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello also said they are coordinating with the Department of Foreign Affairs to assess the situation there.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the crisis Alert Level 3 in Libya, the Philippines had started implementing voluntary repatriation for Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>The DOLE chief said a quick response team composed of six personnel will be deployed on Tuesday in Tunisia to assist workers who will return home with or without the raising of the alert level in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a preventive move by DOLE to send our team to Tunisia to help assist in repatriating our countrymen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said about 10 OFWs have already expressed their intention to go home as of posting time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) affected by the crisis in Libya are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":209382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211075","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211077,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211075\/revisions\/211077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}