Migration, for many people around the world, is sometimes the best, if not the only, option to improve their life choices, according to the United Nations Development Programme. For some Filipino workers now stranded in Saudi Arabia, however, overseas employment proved to be a choice they regret having made.
Now on their third day of staging a hunger strike, five more Pinays in the Kingdom are pleading with the Philippine government to speed up efforts to repatriate them, about two months after they stopped working in protest of what they allege as harsh work conditions.
The five overseas Filipino workers (OFW) are all women caregivers employed by the Annasban Group, a multimillion-riyal maintenance and operations firm previously implicated in several other complaints of unfair labor practices.
Workers Rolmar Castañeda, Marietta Montaño, Jane Gerarman and Leonor Agorilla said in an interview with GMANews.TV they have been “detained" in the company-owned facility in Riyadh for about two months now, while awaiting results of their request to be sent home.
No end in sight for OFW woes in Saudi firm, as more workers plead for help
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