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POEA ADVISORY: UPDATE ON THE RESTRICTED LABOR MARKETS AND SKILLS

 
The POEA wishes to reiterates that the following markets are still included in the list of restricted markets and skills where deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s) to the following countries is prohibited, either totally or for a particular skill category only, due to:
  1. UNSTABLE PEACE AND ORDER SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
                   ASIA
                              Afghanistan
 
                              a) There is total ban on the deployment of OFW’s to this country.
                 
 
                   AFRICA
                               Nigeria
 
                               a)The ban includes the entry of Filipino seafarers to Nigeria onboard vessels on liner service calling
                                   on Nigeria ports.
                               b) Workers-on-leave/balik-manggagawa workers are exempted from the ban.
                  
                   MIDDLE EAST
                                Iraq
                a) There is total ban on the deployment of OFW’s to this country.
   Lebanon
               a) There is total ban on the deployment of OFW’s to this country.
 
                  II. WORKING CONDITIONS in
                     MIDDLE EAST
                                 
                                Jordan
 
The deployment of newly-hired household service workers (HSW’s) is temporarily suspended. However, balik-manggagawa HSWs returning to the same employer are exempted from the ban, provided that their salary shall not be lower that the prescribed monthly pay for HSWs $400.00. For the information and guidance of all concerned by JENNIFER JARDIN-MANALILI the administrator.