This is due to the Gulf state’s continued failure to address the violations committed against Filipino migrant workers, who to date have claims amounting to at least P4.6 billion.
continued failure to address the violations committed against Filipino migrant workers, who to date have claims amounting to at least P4.6 billion.
“The purpose of this scaling down is to call the attention of the Saudi government to what we consider as slow action to the plight of our workers … whose monetary claims have yet to be settled,” Bello told reporters.This year alone, Bello said more than 300 overseas Filipino workers deployed in several construction and oil companies in Saudi Arabia have not received their salaries from their employers since April.
Over 200 of these workers are employed by one of the main contractors of state-owned Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer.
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