POEA allows deployment of OFWs to Iraq, 2 other countries


Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday announced
that the Governing Board of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, which
she chairs, has lifted the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers to Iraq,
Yemen, and Eretria and will now allow OFWs who would like to work in these countries
to leave.

"The POEA Governing Board has issued three separate resolutions allowing the
deployment of Filipino workers to Iraq, Yemen, and Eretria. The Department of Foreign
Affairs has included Iraq in the list of compliant countries under Republic Act 10022,
effectively lifting the five-year old ban to the said country," Baldoz said in a press
statement.

Baldoz said that in its official communication dated 4 February 2013, the Philippine
Embassy in Baghdad has certified Iraq as compliant with the guarantees of the law.
The DFA, in its letter dated 06 February 2013, has lowered the Crisis Alert Level in Iraq
to Alert Level 1 (Precautionary Phase), withmandatory travel restriction to "no-go"
zones to be determined by the host country.

Baldoz said the POEA Governing Board has agreed to lift the deployment ban on Iraq
and resume the processing and deployment of returning workers or balik-manggagawa,
or rehires, upon the submission of list of areas identified as “no-go" zones by the Iraqi
government. "However, the processing and deployment of new hires, except HSWs, shall resume
upon the conclusion of a Bilateral Labor Agreement with Iraq and the identification of
the restricted zones," she said.
She added: " I have instructed POEA Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac to fast track the
guidelines on the resumption of deployment of OFWs to Iraq."
Citing unstable peace and order situation, the same Board suspended the processing
and deployment of all workers bound for Iraq on 17 December 2007.

In another resolution, the POEA Board has allowed the deployment of newly-hired and
returning OFWs bound for Yemen with the lowering of the DFA issued Alert Level in
Yemen from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1 on 29 January 2013.

In February 2011, the POEA has deferred the processing and deployment of all OFWs
bound for Yemen in view of the unstable political and security conditions in that country.
On the basis of the certification by the DFA dated 21 December 2012, the POEA Board
has also included Eritrea in the list of countries compliant with the requirements of RA
10020 where the continued deployment of OFWs shall be allowed.

With the addition of Iraq and Eritrea, 189 countries and territories are now certified as
compliant with the guarantees on the protection of the rights of foreign workers provided
under Section 3 of RA 10022.

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