POEA revokes recruiter's license


The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on July 28 cancelled the license of Experts Placement Agency, Inc., which was found to have attempted to send four female workers to Lebanon using Dubai, United Arab Emirates as jump-off point.

Administrator Hans Cacdac said Experts Placement Agency, Inc. tried to deploy 
the four OFWs as household service workers in Lebanon by having their papers 
processed at the POEA using the agency’s existing job orders approved for Dubai.
The workers filed their complaints against the agency after they were barred from 
boarding their plane at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport by officers of the 
Bureau of Immigration’s Travel Control and Enforcement Unit (TCEU).

Cacdac said the TCEU intercepted the workers because they initially presented 
travel papers for Dubai but upon further inspection and questioning, they admitted 
that they were actually bound for Lebanon. Documents retrieved from the workers 
showed that two of them were supposed to work in Dubai as helpers, and the other 
two as archives clerk and sewer respectively.

In his decision, Cacdac found Experts Placement Agency liable for
misrepresentation. The POEA 2002 Rules and Regulations Governing the 
Recruitment and Employment of Land-based Overseas Workers prohibits a 
recruitment agency from engaging in the acts of misrepresentation such as 
furnishing or publishing any false notice, information, and document in relation to 
recruitment and employment.

“This is a clear case of re-processing which constitutes misrepresentation
considering that the workers’ destination and employer are different from what 
appear on their POEA-processed documents,” Cacdac said. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PCG: China’s bullying in West Philippine Sea undermines international law --- Ghio Ong - The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines — Letting China sustain its aggression in the West Philippine Sea would make other countries doubt the strength of international law currently being asserted by the Philippines, Commodore Jay Tarriela of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. “Allowing China to blatantly disregard the established rules-based order threatens the very foundation that we all depend on,” he wrote in a post on X last Tuesday. He added, “If we permit this, countries worldwide may forget why this order was created in the first place. Nations could begin to doubt the significance of adhering to international law if powerful bullies can easily violate it.” Tarriela also said defiance of other countries to a rules-based order would result in the prevalence of cruelty. He wrote, “This could lead us back to a time when might makes right, undermining the global structures that keep human greed, savagery and barbarism in check. Such a scenario would not only invite challenges from aggressive ...
Read more

Social media seen as cause of rising intermarriages --- Helen Flores - The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) sees social media as the main reason for the rising number of Filipinos marrying or becoming partners of foreign nationals. In 2022, the CFO recorded 6,854 marriages or partnerships with foreign nationals, a 40.1 percent increase from the 4,891 “intermarriages” recorded in 2021. “First of all, what we see in the increase in the marriage rate of Filipinos or Filipinos with foreign partners is because of social media, (that) is number one; matchings; letters, introduction of their friends,” CFO chairperson Romulo Arugay said at the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon public briefing yesterday. Arugay said the agency has been registering a high number of intermarriages since 2007, but the figures went down during the COVID-19 pandemic. From over 6,500 Filipinos who married foreign nationals, only 600 are men, he said. Most of them are married to Americans, Japanese, Germans, Canadians and Australians, Arugay said. Arugay warned Fi...
Read more

China ships maintain presence in key West Philippine Sea areas --- Michael Punongbayan - The Philippine Star

STAR / Michael Varcas MANILA, Philippines — While Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) have decreased in number, they have maintained a presence in three key land features where naval and coast guard ships have intensified operations in the past seven days, according to the Philippine Navy. Latest monitoring by the Philippine Navy showed armed ships of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) maintaining a menacing presence around the grounded BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal, Panatag Shoal and Escoda Shoal. According to the Philippine Navy, there are 17 Chinese military vessels and 28 China Coast Guard (CCG) boats spotted inside the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between Sept. 23 and 30, or one vessel more than in the previous week Sept.17-23. Five of the warships were seen roaming around the vicinity of Escoda Shoal, along with 10 CCG vessels and 12 maritime militia vessels (MMVs). There are also two PLAN ships in Ayungin Shoal as well as 10 CCG boats and 12...
Read more