POEA chief: Illegal recruiters may take advantage of labor market bubble in Japan

Recent unverified reports on job opportunities in Japan may result in illegal recruiters taking advantage of the situation to victimize Filipinos eager to work abroad, an official of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration warned on Monday.

According to POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, actual job orders (JOs) from employers for teachers in Japan are very low contrary to several published reports.

“I recognize that Japan needs English teachers and maybe even domestic workers but the JOs registered at the POEA currently do not reflect that,” Cacdac said.

He also said based on POEA data, there are no job orders for domestic workers in Japan.
 
“I fear that unscrupulous trainings institutions, language centers and illegal recruiters will take advantage of recent news articles that may have created a labor market bubble for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs),” he said in a text message.
 
Cacdac cautioned would-be OFWs to be wary of illegal recruiters, as he reiterated their call to check first with the agency the available job vacancies of the country they wish to be employed in.

“The demand for teachers and domestic workers in Japan is one thing, actual job orders from employers are another. Beware of illegal recruiters,” he said on Twitter. — KBK, GMA News

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