MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has temporarily prohibited the deployment of newly hired overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Myanmar due to coup-related tensions, POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said Tuesday.
POEA issued the deployment ban after the Department of Foreign Affairs hoisted a crisis Alert Level 2 or restriction phase in Myanmar.
“May kaunting kaguluhan po sa Myanmar kaya po ang POEA governing board ay nagpatupad at nagpalabas ng isang resolution na kung saan nakalagay po doon na Level 2 yung state of alertness doon sa nasabing bansa kaya bawal po ngayon ang new hires,” Olalia said in a televised briefing.
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