A deployment ban on Filipino workers bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) looms amid the failure by Saudi employers to settle the unpaid wages and end of contract payments of some 10,000 OFWs amounting to some P4.5 billion.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd disclosed on Wednesday that claims had been lying idle for more than four years now despite a final and executory ruling by a Saudi court favoring OFWs.

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