{"id":252507,"date":"2020-04-18T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252507"},"modified":"2020-04-18T05:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:48:00","slug":"dole-chief-suspends-rude-labor-exec-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/18\/dole-chief-suspends-rude-labor-exec-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE chief suspends &#8216;rude&#8217; labor exec in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238122\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238122\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bello_5b3c621fbb9613_77363625-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bello said welfare officer Danilo Flores of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) is under administrative suspension for alleged misconduct. (PIA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Saturday he has ordered the immediate suspension of a Philippine labor official assigned in Dubai involved in an incident with an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) that went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said welfare officer Danilo Flores of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) is under administrative suspension for alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that he saw the Facebook post that went viral involving the POLO officer and an OFW last April 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mayroon sa<\/em>\u00a0Facebook<em>\u00a0kung saan ang<\/em>\u00a0welfare officer in Dubai,\u00a0<em>minumura nya<\/em>\u00a0OFW (There&#8217;s a post on Facebook where a welfare officer in Dubai was cursing an OFW). I saw it on FB.\u00a0<em>Sa halip na bigyan ng pagkain ang mga<\/em>\u00a0OFWs\u00a0<em>natin, aba minumura<\/em>\u00a0(Instead of giving food to our OFWs, he&#8217;s cursing them),\u201d Bello said in an interview during the Laging Handa briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo immediately yesterday I ordered his suspension and investigation and immediately ordered his recall to the Philippines. The first available flight\u00a0<em>iuuwi na sya<\/em>\u00a0(he would be brought home),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The incident allegedly happened during the distribution of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration&#8217;s food aid package for OFWs in Dubai and the Northern Emirates who have been displaced by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is to determine Flores&#8217; culpability for alleged misbehavior in dealing with OFWs, Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bello assured the public of DOLE\u2019s continuing welfare and assistance programs for OFWs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Saturday he has ordered the immediate suspension &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":238122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252507","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\/252507","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=252507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252508,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252507\/revisions\/252508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}