POEA suspends recruitment agencies using fake TESDA certificates
Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac has issued preventive suspension orders against two (2)
recruitment agencies that submitted fake skills competency certificates of household service
workers (HSW) at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
Cacdac said Global Recruitment Connections-Ph Corporation and Excel Manpower Corporation
submitted for processing by the POEA’s Land-based Center in July 2014 documents of HSWs
including their respective TESDA-NCII certificates.
Possession of National Certificate HSWs (NCII) issued by the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority is required of household service workers bound for overseas
employment. The deploying agency is mandated to submit proof of compliance with the NCII
requirement as a condition for processing and issuance of exit clearance by the POEA.
Cacdac said that in the course of evaluation of the documents of the HSWs, the POEA
evaluation officer detected that the NCII certificates of the OFWs submitted by the two agencies
have no security features. The Manila District Office of TESDA verified that the NCII
certificates were all fake, indicating clear violation of the POEA Rules and Regulation .
Cacdac said Global Recruitment submitted six (6) fake TESDA-NCII certificates and Excel
Manpower Corporation presented nine (9) forged certificates.
The order of preventive suspension (OPS) issued to Excel Manpower Corporation and Global
Recruitment Connections effectively prohibits the recruitment agencies from recruitment and
deployment of overseas Filipino workers pending investigation and subsequent filing of
appropriate recruitment violation cases against them.
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