President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the government of Saudi Arabia has already ironed out a list of claimants and is processing the wages it committed to shoulder for the 10,000 overseas Filipino workers who were left jobless after companies went bankrupt last year.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the government of Saudi Arabia has already ironed out a list of claimants and is processing the wages it committed to shoulder for the 10,000 overseas Filipino workers who were left jobless after companies went bankrupt last year.
"Napo-process na ngayon 'yun ," Marcos told reporters on Friday on the sidelines of the ASEAN-GCC summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "We are already coming to the point na 'yung detalye na lang ang pinag-uusapan . 'Yung listahan ng mga claimant ay nalinis na, maayos na . And we are just waiting for the details to be worked out between the Saudi side," he added.The chief executive said the timing of the distribution still depends on the internal process of the Middle Eastern country.settlement
of the salaries following a bilateral meeting with Marcos on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok, Thailand. The Saudi government set aside two billion riyals for the unpaid salaries from a number of companies, including Saudi OGer, MMG, the Bin Laden group, and"other construction companies that declared bankruptcy in 2015 and 2016."
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