Unpaid for six months in Saudi Arabia, OFW lost child to sickness in July

One of the OFWs who have not been receiving their salaries from a troubled company in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia has lost his child.

According to a report on "QRT", Kamaloden Kazzan's nine-year-old child died in July. It's been six months since Kazzan last received his pay.

Kazzan said he was not able to send money back home for the medical needs of his child because the company stopped paying employees' salaries.

Other OFWs have been borrowing money from relatives so their family could survive.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and Department of Foreign Affairs are in Saudi Arabia to help the distressed OFWs.

In his last interview, Bello said he would talk with officials of the Arab country's Ministry of Labor to ensure that the back salaries would be paid and that the OFWs who want to come home would be safely repatriated.

He added that those who do not want to be repatriated would be transferred to other companies.