EU nod on PH seafarer certificates aborts job crisis

by Franco Jose C. Baroña - Moises Cruz - Javier Joe Ismael

Apr 02, 2023 12:28 am

MIGRANT Workers Secretary Susan Ople said on Saturday that the decision of the European Union to continually recognize certificates issued by the Philippines to seamen averted a crisis that could lead to the loss of jobs of 50,000 Filipino seafarers.

'With this decision, a crisis of monumental proportions has just been averted,' Ople said.

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