POEA suspends recruitment agency for victimizing six Taiwan-bound OFWs

A Manila-based recruitment agency has been preventively suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) as it allegedly fleeced six prospective overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) of P100,000 each.
 
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac ordered the preventive suspension of Primeworld Manpower Agency over alleged excessive collection of placement fees, non-issuance of a receipt, and violations of the POEA employment contract.
 
"Six Filipino workers the agency recruited and deployed to Taiwan alleged that they paid Primeworld Manpower placement fees amounting to at least P100,000 each without the corresponding receipts. They worked as factory workers for Sixfull Industrial Co. Ltd and received a monthly salary of NT$18,780," the POEA said on its Facebook account on Thursday.

Citing its records, the POEA said Primeworld Manpower Agency is located at Rooms 201 and 204, Estrella Condominium at 858 San Andres St., Malate Manila.
 
POEA rules prescribe a ceiling on placement fees, which are equivalent to a hired worker’s salary for one month.
 
The workers also claimed that a broker, Taander Manpower Co. Ltd., made them pay NT$20,000 to NT$70,000 for their return to their Taiwan employer.
 
According to Cacdac, the sworn statements and documents submitted by the complainants showed Primeworld Manpower may have committed serious offenses.
 
While a recruitment agency is under preventive suspension, it is not allowed to engage in any recruitment activity.
 
The preventive suspension aims to prevent other prospective jobseekers from being victimized by the agency. - VVP, GMA News

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