{"id":231275,"date":"2019-09-17T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231275"},"modified":"2019-09-17T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:21:20","slug":"dole-ready-to-repatriate-ofws-if-saudi-situation-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/17\/dole-ready-to-repatriate-ofws-if-saudi-situation-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE ready to repatriate OFWs if Saudi situation worsens"},"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\">Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III noted that they are still assessing the possible implications on the safety and security of Filipino workers there. (PCOO File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday said it is ready to repatriate some 50,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from areas affected by the bombing of oil plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), in case the condition there worsens.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III noted that they are still assessing the possible implications on the safety and security of Filipino workers there.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they are monitoring developments in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, no reports of OFWs injured or negatively affected by the attack and no work disruption was reported. Our Philippine Overseas Labor Offices in Al Khobar, Riyadh, and Dammam are also on top of the situation to check on the conditions of our OFWs,\u201d the DOLE chief said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bello reported that there was no Filipino casualty in Saturday&#8217;s drone attack at the Abqaiq plant in the kingdom affecting nearly half of the country&#8217;s oil production, which is about 5 percent of the global daily output.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were allegedly perpetrated by Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The DOLE secretary added that they are in close coordination with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on the possible repatriation in case the situation worsens and poses danger to OFWs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are coordinating with the DFA on the development of the situation for constant assessment. But we are ready for any eventual repatriation to ensure the safety and security of OFWs, or help them secure employment in the other areas,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s leading oil exporter, is among the top destination countries for OFWs composing 24.3 percent of the total 2.3 million OFWs worldwide, according to the 2018 Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday said it is ready to repatriate some 50,000 overseas Filipino &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":209382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231275","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=231275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231279,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231275\/revisions\/231279"}],"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=231275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}