Philippines Halts Sending Migrant Workers to Saudi Arabia
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The Philippines has suspended deploying workers to Saudi Arabia, its top destination for overseas labor, due to reports that migrants are being asked to shoulder costs of Covid-19 quarantine and insurance.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello issued an order on Thursday halting deployment to Saudi Arabia “until further notice,” the agency’s information director Rolly Francia said in a virtual briefing Friday.