THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will deploy additional labor attaches and welfare officers to the Middle East to ensure that concerns and problems of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the area are attended to promptly.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd on Wednesday disclosed that he wanted at least two labor attaches for every Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia, which has the highest concentration of Filipino migrant workers.

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