POEA cancels recruiter’s license for contract substitution


Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac recently ordered the cancellation of the license of
Allskills Manpower Services Inc. for substituting POEA-approved employment
contracts with contracts grossly disadvantageous to the workers it deployed to Saudi
Arabia.
In separate letter-complaints of seven (7) OFWs forwarded by the Philippine Overseas
Labor Office in Riyadh to Administrator Cacdac, the workers alleged that Allskills
Manpower issued them two contracts: one was used for processing of their exit
clearance at the POEA; and the other one handed to them by the employer upon their
arrival in Saudi Arabia.
Cacdac said the second contract contained terms and conditions inferior to the first
contract. In the original contract, the complainants were supposed to be employed
either as nurse or midwife in different hospitals but they ended up working in a dental
clinic as clinic nurse or dental technician as indicated in the second contract.
He said the workers have signed up for hospitals like Qasseem National Hospital,
Mayiez Medical Center, Medical 2000 Polyclinic, Al Fereh Hospital, and Al Ahmadi
Hospital but were sent instead to a common employer, Onaiza Dental Clinic owned by
a certain Dr. Sulaiman Hammad Al-Atiya.
The effectivity of the employment contract was to commence upon the workers’
arrival in the KSA but was changed to “after passing the Saudi Commission for Health
Specialties Exam”. Items in the first contract such as salary, transportation allowance,
food allowance, and lodging were either reduced or totally omitted in the new
contract.
“Obviously, there is misrepresentation not only to the complainants but also to the
Administration when the agency deployed the workers to an employer and position

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 different from that indicated in the employment contracts submitted to the POEA,”
Cacdac said.
Allskills Manpower was also found to have collected excessive placement fees from
the workers and have not issued receipts corresponding to the amounts paid.
In his order cancelling the license of Allskills Manpower, Cacdac said the agency was
liable for six (6) counts violation of Section 2b (Charging excessive placement fees)
and seven (7) counts violation of Section 2d (non-issuance of receipt), 2e
(misrepresentation) and 2i (contract substitution), Rule I, Part VI of the 2002 POEA
Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Land-based
Overseas Workers.
Cacdac also ordered the agency and its surety agency to refund to the complainants
the excess amounts collected from them.

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