Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. says the ban violates the right to travel and the sanctity of contracts, and applies a punishment not previously imposed. | JeromeAningINQ
The aim is “to prioritize human resource allocation for the national health care system,” according to the resolution posted on Twitter by Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay.
“I do hope we can resolve this issue that brilliant Filipino healthcare workers, already employed by the NHS, can get back to the UK to carry on with their jobs,” British ambassador to Manila Daniel Pruce responded to Locsin, also on Twitter.“You really do not want to be stuck here under the regime of people who don’t know anything,” he said.
When told about Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III’s claim that the Department of Foreign Affairs representative at the POEA governing board did not object to the resolution on the deployment ban, Locsin replied: “Well I, as SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, object to it and fill up the silence of the DFA representative. I REJECT THIS ABOMINATION.”
“We are placing our health workers in a state of limbo or uncertainty,” Nagkaisa chair Sonny Matula said in a statement on Saturday.
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