Over 100 distressed Pinoys in Jordan get plane tickets, may soon return home

Many of about 114 distressed overseas Filipino workers in Jordan may be on their way home soon after they got airline tickets, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Tuesday.
 
In a news release, DOLE said the distressed OFWs had been staying at the Filipino Workers' Resource Center of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Amman.
 
"Only 31 of the 114 OFWs are here since 2012. Twenty-two of the 31 have already approved airline tickets but could not be repatriated yet because the Jordanian immigration did not allow them to use merely travel documents for their scheduled exit last December," Baldoz said, citing a report from welfare officer Mario Antonio.
 
She added that the International Organization for Migration is helping the POLO negotiate with Jordanian authorities to facilitate the OFWs' exit clearances.
 
Antonio said out of the 114 OFWs staying at the FWRC, only 18 have no approved repatriation tickets.
 
He said the exit documents of 67 of the 114 OFWs are being processed while negotiations are ongoing for the release of the others, who had been in Jordan for less than a year.
 
The DOLE said under Jordanian law, foreign workers whose employers have violated their contracts have the right to terminate these contracts.
 
"Of course, they cannot be repatriated yet until the negotiations are concluded," said Antonio.
 
The DOLE also said Jordanian authorities have established an emergency committee to address the OFWs' pleas for repatriation. - VVP, GMA News

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