DoLE to repatriate 5,000 migrant workers

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is taking advantage of a 90-day general amnesty given by the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for all undocumented and overstaying migrant workers for humanitarian reasons by repatriating at least 5,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

A DoLE team of senior officials has been created by Labor and Employment Silvestre Bello 3rd to fly to Saudi Arabia to facilitate the repatriation process to bring home the distressed OFWs, who, according to the group Migrante International, number more than 5,000.