The deployment of OFWs has increased but it is still below the pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, the Department of Migrant Workers said. | DFernandezINQ
During the Senate subcommittee on economic affairs hearing, DMW Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac said that both land-based and sea-based deployment rose in 2022 compared to 2021.
“Ang land-based deployment, tumaas ng mga 50 to 70 percent as far as I recall. It could be higher… Sa sea-based, tumaas ng mga by November. By November of last year, same period as compared to 2021, tumaas ng mga 10,000 seafarers ang deployment,” Cacdac said.
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