3 recruitment agencies suspended for trafficking


 POEA Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac ordered the preventive suspension of Empleos
Incorporated, Nahed International Manpower Services, and Ridzkey Human Resources
International Services, which were found to have illegally deployed Filipino workers to
Jordan using Dubai, United Arab Emirates as transit point.
Cacdac said the three agencies used the same scheme of having the documents of the
OFWs processed at the POEA for work in the UAE, but upon arrival in Dubai, the workers
are transferred to planes bound for Jordan.
Cacdac said the POEA motu propio filed administrative complaints against the three
agencies after receiving memos from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Jordan
requesting assistance for immediate repatriation of OFWs deployed by the agencies. The
workers ran away from their respective employers and are currently staying at the
Filipino Workers Resource Center in Amman.
“The scheme employed by the respondents is a prima facie case of trafficking-in-persons
considering the fact that the workers were officially processed for UAE but they were
deployed instead to employers in Jordan that are not accredited or registered with the
POEA,” Cacdac said in his order.
The recruitment agencies also failed to immediately repatriate the affected workers even
with persistent requests for repatriation from the POEA and the workers themselves.
Cacdac said he issued the order of preventive suspension against the three agencies
because there are reasonable grounds to believe that their continued operation will lead
to further violation of POEA rules and regulations, and exploitation of applicants for
overseas jobs.
Cacdac also ordered the inclusion of the names of the respondents in the POEA list of
agencies temporarily disqualified to recruit and deploy Filipino overseas workers pending
investigation of the cases filed against them.

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