Recto: Give OFWs red carpet treatment, help displaced workers too

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto urged the government to give returning overseas Filipino workers the best possible treatment after he saw images of them spending the night on the pavement in one of the terminals of NAIA. | BLozadaINQ

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who heads the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases, announced that OFWs will be“Let us hope that this is finally the beginning of a scaled up handling of returning OFWs so that the huge global backlog in OFWs wanting to go home will be reduced,” said Recto who welcomed Lorenzana’s announcement.

Apart from OFWs staying the nights in the airport, Recto also urged the government to look into the plight of the out-of-job construction workers with “tens of thousands” getting stranded inside Metro Manila after Luzon was put in lockdown.

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