Migrant workers chief slams Bello for blocking order to reassign POEA officers

MANILA, Philippines --- The chief of the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has slammed labor secretary Silvestre Bello III for blocking the order to reassign the officials and employees of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). In a letter sent to Bello's office, DMW Secretary Abdullah Mama-o said the labor secretary has "no business" in preventing the reassigning and designation of 16 POEA officials, mostly division chiefs and directors, to new assignments. "With regard to your attached latest interfering memo to the offices and staff in the erstwhile POEA, with all due respect, you have no legal basis to claim that the DMW does not yet exist," M...

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