The government is ready to put in place measures to help Filipino workers in the Middle East who may be displaced because of sliding oil prices, Malacañang said on Thursday.
Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. gave the assurance after migrant worker groups warned against the possibility of mass retrenchment of Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia because of the economic situation in that country, where at least 2.3 million Filipinos are working.
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