LABOR Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd threatened to sanction officials and employees of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Saudi Arabia for not elping the thousands of Filipinos there who lost their jobs.

“I won’t condone it. What happened is when they (POLO officials) arrived in a foreign country, they do nothing until they receive complaints [from Filipino migrant workers],” Bello said in a radio interview from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

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