The Filipino News Agency (GMA) reported that the Philippines’ president lifted the ban on sending Filipino workers to Kuwait.
The Philippine government's action came a day after the announcement of the lifting of the ban on sending skilled and semi-skilled workers to Kuwait, thus, the lifting would now include all the maids.
The Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he is ready to lift the ban on sending Filipino workers to Kuwait after signing a labour pact that protects the Filipino workers.
The spokesman for the Philippine’s presidency said after the signing of the memorandum of the agreement between the two countries that the ban on skilled and semi-skilled workers will be lifted, but this will not include domestic workers, unless there is a model of employment contract, like those used in other countries, to recruit these Filipino domestic workers when needed.
According to the agreement and under the new changes, employers will not be allowed to confiscate their workers' passports as they will be kept at the Philippine’s embassy instead.
It is noteworthy that the crisis broke out between Kuwait and the Philippines after that the Philippine’s president escalation against Kuwait asking for a ban on the receipt of employment. In fact, he asked his citizens to leave within 72 hours and book a return ticket for free, after the killing of a Filipino domestic whose corpse was found in the refrigerator of one of the apartments, which was known as the "freezer’s corpse".
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