No placement fee for Canada-bound OFWs

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
warns recruitment agencies against charging or
collecting any recruitment and placement fee from
workers to be deployed to Canada and countries which
have laws that prohibit the same.

Administrator Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said POEA
Governing Board No. 4, Series of 2001 and the 2002 POEA
Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and
Employment of Land-based Overseas Workers prohibit a
land-base agency from collecting any placement fee
from workers who will be deployed in any country where
the prevailing system, either by law, policy or practice
does not allow said collection because the employer
shall pay the cost of placement and recruitment
services.

The prohibition is specifically applicable to agencies that
are deploying workers to the Canada provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Baldoz said that hiring of foreign workers in occupations
that usually require a high school diploma or a maximum
of 2 years of job-specific training (level C and D) under
the Pilot Project of the Government of Canada is also
covered by the prohibition on collection of placement
fee. Under the prevailing policy of the Canada
government, employers shall cover all recruitment costs
related to the hiring of the foreign workers under the
pilot project.

The POEA will cancel the license of the recruitment
agency found violating this policy. ###

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