The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) announced that deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will continue on Friday, July 6, after months of delay.
Since the lifting of the deployment ban to Kuwait on May 16 and the release of the guidelines on recruitment of OFWs in early June, no OFWs have been deployed to the Gulf state which caused confusion among OFWs who await their deployment date to be released, reported ABS-CBN News.
POEA administrator Bernard Olalia explained that a resolution needed to be released after the signing of the labor deal between the Philippines and Kuwait. This was followed by the release of the guidelines of recruitment of OFWs which needed a 15-day publication period.
Olalia said the publication period ends on July 6 which marks the beginning of the deployment of OFWs, particularly household service workers (HSWs), to Kuwait.
Deployment of some 3,000 OFWs were delayed when President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a deployment ban to Kuwait following the death of Joanna Demafelis whose body was discovered stuffed inside a freezer in an abandoned apartment in the Gulf state.
