DOLE warns recruiters on failure to protect deployed domestic workers


"The obligation of a licensed recruitment agency to its hired OFWs does not end
upon their deployment to the worksite. The recruitment agency has the continuous obligation to ensure protection of workers, especially domestic workers."

Thus said Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday
after she reminded yet once again recruitment agency owners who lose sight of their
duty to protect domestic workers deployed overseas.

" No less than the governing board of the Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration (POEA) has required the highest degree of protection for our overseas
household service workers, owing to the vulnerable nature of their employment,"
Baldoz said. "Hence, we shall hold recruiters true to their responsibility and accountable to the
POEA to ensure that foreign employers faithfully comply with their legal and
contractual obligations to our domestic workers," she added.

Baldoz is the chairman of the POEA governing board.
POEA administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac, the governing board's vice chairman echoed
the warning of Secretary Baldoz by saying that licensed recruitment agencies' "failure
to abide by their responsibility to protect OFWs warrants the cancellation of their
licenses, depending on the gravity and frequency of the offenses."

Administrator Cacdac said such legal and contractual obligations include humane
treatment, payment of salaries and benefits, and notification of the Philippine
embassy about any significant development affecting the condition of domestic
workers. Also, the recruitment agency must assist in the settlement of disputes and report to
the POEA any significant or important situation experienced by a deployed domestic
worker.

Administrator Cacdac noted that over the last five years, an increasing number of
overseas domestic workers have filed cases against their recruitment agencies and
employers before the POEA. He also noted an increasing number of cases that
involved the death or physical abuse of female domestic workers.

For any violation of recruiters' legal obligations to protect deployed domestic
workers, Cacdac delivered this stern warning: "Recruitment agencies shall be held accountable for incidents of abuse, exploitation,or breach of contract committed by household employers against our domestic
workers."

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