More than a hundred OFWs who have taken refuge in the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are set to return to the Philippines on Monday, September 23. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III explained that these OFWs are those that fled from their employers, and those whose contracts have expired yet do not have the capability to return home on their own. Bello asserts that it is the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s responsibility to make sure that OFWs are able to return home.
