A few days after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raised crisis alert level 2 in Ukraine, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is set to impose a deployment ban on newly hired overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who want to work there.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that the POEA governing board will deliberate on a resolution while awaiting the official transmission of the DFA’s recommendation on the situation in Ukraine.

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