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Due to the 2018 Kuwait–Philippine diplomatic crisis the Philippines banned the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait in February 2018. [8] Deployment of "skilled" and "semi-skilled" were allowed on May 12 [ 9 ] and the ban was completely lifted on May 16.
The Philippines on Tuesday allowed Filipino workers to travel to Hong Kong and Macau, relaxing the travel ban it imposed on China and its special administrative regions to control the spread of ...
The Kuwaiti government has criticized the migrant worker ban imposed by the Philippines in gulf country and has stated that all cases of alleged abuse against Filipino migrant workers are being handled by its laws. The National Assembly of Kuwait has discussed the situation of the Filipino migrant workers in the country. [7]
Iraq has urged the Philippines to lift its ban so that Filipino workers can be involved in the rehabilitation of the country. The ban was partially lifted in July 2013, allowing Filipinos except domestic workers to work in Iraq though Filipinos were still barred in working in the Anbar, Nineveh, Kirkuk, and Salahuddin Governorates. [9]
By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait and the Philippines agreed measures on Friday to regulate the employment of domestic workers from the Southeast Asian country, following a diplomatic row ...
Reports of humans rights abuses against migrant workers in Kuwait including Filipinos remains a concern of the Philippines. [5] Alleged cases of abuse and rape has led to Filipinos making a petition to their government to ban the deployment of domestic help to Kuwait in 2013. The petition has collected at least 10 thousand signatures. [6]
Philippine immigration chief Norman Tansingco said in a statement foreign workers had 59 days to leave the country. Around 20,000 people are expected to be affected by the order, most of them ...
The ban was partially lifted in 2018 to allow the return of workers from vacation under the Balik Manggawa Program. [5] In 2020, the total ban on all Filipino workers, notably household service workers, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] was reinstated, [ 9 ] during the US-Iran conflict following the assassination of Qasem Sulaimani [ 10 ] and Iran's ...