Recruitment of seafarers at Rizal Park illegal -- POEA

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac yesterday reiterated that all recruitment activities at Rizal Park are deemed illegal without the special recruitment authority (SRA) issued by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. Cacdac said that under the Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Land-based Overseas Workers, a licensed recruitment or manning agency cannot engage in recruitment activities in places other than that specified in the license without previous authorization from the POEA. “Because of reported hiring malpractices, the POEA stopped in May 2009 the issuance of SRA to manning agencies, and ordered those occupying booths managed by Luneta Seafarers’ Welfare Foundation, Inc. (LUSWELF) at Rizal Park to end their recruitment activities or face administrative sanctions,” Cacdac said. According to Cacdac, the POEA had already suspended the license of 12 manning agencies and ordered them to pay appropriate fines for recruiting seafarers in the areawithout the SRA. SRA is the authority granted by the POEA to a licensed agency to conduct recruitment outside the registered office or address stated in the license of an agency or its acknowledged additional office(s). Over the years, seafarers looking for jobs in foreign vessels converge in that part of Rizal Park near the National Library in T.M. Kalaw Street because of its proximity to most of the licensed manning agencies in Ermita and Intramuros. The Associated Marine Officers and Seaman’s Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP) had the idea of converting the place into a center where seafarers coming from the provinces can have a place to stay in Manila while looking for a job or waiting toboard a ship. The idea later evolved into a center wherein information about seafaring can be discussed or posted. AMOSUP later transferred the management of the center to LUSWELF. The POEA became part of the center in 2007 through a memorandum of agreement with LUSWELF by conducting orientation seminars and distribution of information materials. LUSWELF later rented out booths to manning agencies which wanted to recruit seafarers in the area. Consequently, the POEA issued SRAs to legalize the recruitment activities of the agencies. In April 2009, the Joint Manning Group, a conglomeration of several associations of manning agencies issued a resolution enjoining their members to pull out of the LUSWELF area because the objectives of the center were no longer met. Cacdac advises seafarers to file their applications directly with manning agencies in their registered office address, which can be found in the POEA website poea.gov.ph.

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