POEA warns recruitment agencies vs. placement fees for NZ
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration over the weekend warned recruitment agencies against charging placement fees from overseas Filipino workers bound for New Zealand.
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said New Zealand's Wages Protection Act of 1983 bars employers from seeking premiums for the employment of any person.
Recruiters found charging or collecting placement fee for deployment of OFWs to “no placement fee” countries will have their licenses canceled, even on the first offense, he warned.
On the other hand, he advised job applicants to report to the POEA through Facebook the agencies that collect placement fees for New Zealand and other countries covered by the no-placement fee policy.
Aside from New Zealand, countries that prohibit the collection of placement fees include the United States (H2B visa), Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, the POEA cited Section 3, Rule V, Part II of its rules governing the recruitment of land-based overseas workers allows a recruitment agency to charge and collect from its hired workers as placement fee, "an amount equivalent to one month salary, exclusive of documentation costs, except where the prevailing system where the worker is to be deployed, either by law or practice, does not allow charging or collection of placement and recruitment fee." — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said New Zealand's Wages Protection Act of 1983 bars employers from seeking premiums for the employment of any person.
Recruiters found charging or collecting placement fee for deployment of OFWs to “no placement fee” countries will have their licenses canceled, even on the first offense, he warned.
On the other hand, he advised job applicants to report to the POEA through Facebook the agencies that collect placement fees for New Zealand and other countries covered by the no-placement fee policy.
Aside from New Zealand, countries that prohibit the collection of placement fees include the United States (H2B visa), Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, the POEA cited Section 3, Rule V, Part II of its rules governing the recruitment of land-based overseas workers allows a recruitment agency to charge and collect from its hired workers as placement fee, "an amount equivalent to one month salary, exclusive of documentation costs, except where the prevailing system where the worker is to be deployed, either by law or practice, does not allow charging or collection of placement and recruitment fee." — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News
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