250 OFWs returning from Kuwait
MANILA, Philippines — At least 250 distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are coming home from Kuwait today, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said yesterday.
The Philippine government chartered a special flight for the repatriation of the OFWs, according to Bello.
“These workers have either finished their contracts or have expiring exit visas. Some are victims of maltreatment and employment contract-related violations,” he said.
Eighty of the returning OFWs came from the Migrant Workers Overseas Filipino Resource Center. The remaining 170 are domestic and company workers in Kuwait.
Bello said the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration shouldered the plane tickets of 50 migrant workers.
The repatriates will receive assistance from the government such as hotel quarantine accommodations and transport services, Bello said.
He said the govenrment would also pay for the swab tests of OFWs.
The OFWs had requested the Department of Labor and Employment for a chartered flight to take them home amid the restrictions and limited seating capacity for arriving Filipino workers.
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