AFTER more than one year, the Kuwait labor market is now being reopened for Filipino skilled workers and experienced household service workers, according to the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW).
In an online media briefing, Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac yesterday said that selected overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may soon be deployed to Kuwait, which stopped hiring workers from the Philippines back in May 2023.
“Following the talks of DMW Undersecretary Bernard Olalia and Kuwaiti authorities, including the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior, there were discussions regarding the reopening of deployment,” said Cacdac.
“There will be the resumption of deployment for skilled workers and domestic workers for those with working experience as domestic workers abroad,” he added.
To recall, the Kuwaiti government indefinitely suspended the visa issuance to Filipino workers in early May 2023, thereby stopping OFW deployment there.
Cacdac said the DMW is looking to issue a new set of guidelines regarding OFW deployment to Kuwait.
“It will take about two weeks or a month for the adjustment period, to set the issuances. We just need time to work the regulations and issuances pertaining to the resumption of deployment,” said the DMW chief.
Once the regulations are promulgated, he assured that recruitment and deployment will immediately commence within the third quarter of 2024.
“When the regulations come out, only then will there be recruitment. So, it will take a certain period of time. But definitely within the year, most likely not beyond this quarter (is the deployment),” said Cacdac.
