MANILA, Philippines — Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday said the government should address first the issue of local health care workers who may not have received their salaries before they could place a cap on the latter’s deployment overseas.
Hontiveros’ statement was in light of President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to lift the overseas travel ban on healthcare workers. However, the government imposed that only 5,000 workers will be allowed to leave every year.
This cap, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said, may “increase eventually.”
“Yung 5,000 cap, siguro bago natin lagyan ng anumang limitasyon o ganyang cap, ayusin muna natin ang working conditions nila,” Hontive…
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