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POEA Cancels Licenses of 33 recruitment firms by OFW Resources on May 27, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, from January to May 2012,has cancelled the licenses of 21 recruitment agencies and suspended 12 others,including five agencies charged motu propio by the office, for numerous recruitment violat...
No More OEC System for OFWs Soon by OFW Abroad on May 26, 2012To speed up the processing procedure for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) would soon abolish the system of Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC). This is the information disclosed by the Labor...
Campaign against illegal recruitment launched in Antique by Kabayan Po Ako on May 26, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and other government agencies forged partnership with the Province of Antique on the Campaign Against Illegal Recruitment, trafficking in Person, and Irregular Migration (CAIRTIM) in the Munici...
Seafarers exempted from POEA validation at the airports by Kabayan Po Ako on May 26, 2012POEA Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac, in a memorandum circular has ordered the exemption of seafarers from POEA validation at international airports. According to Cacdac, the new measure which took effect on May 15, 2012 aims to reduce the number o...
POEA Ordered Forced Closure of Two Agencies by OFW Abroad on May 16, 2012Overseas recruitment agencies who fail to follow the rules and regulations in hiring overseas workers face the risk of having their licenses canceled. However, even with cancelled licenses, some recruitment agencies continue to hire applicants for ov...
POEA clamps down on erring recruitment agencies by Kabayan Po Ako on May 14, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration is putting the pressure on erring recruitment agencies as it closed last Friday two recruitment agencies that continued to engage in the recruitment and placement of workers overseas after their respe...
Wanted: Women’s Representative to POEA Governing Board by Kabayan Po Ako on May 2, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is still accepting nominations for a representative of the women sector in its governing body. Any non-government organization (NGO) which stands for the cause of women and adheres to the prot...
POEA: Cordillerans working abroad increasing, ME countries remain top destination by Kabayan Po Ako on Apr 30, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA-CAR) reported an increasing trend of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from Cordillera leaving to work abroad with Middle East countries as top destinations. POEA -CAR Regional Director Delfina...
Remittance Is Not the Enemy, Economic Reintegration of Returning OFWs Is by The OFW Microinvestor on Apr 22, 2012Tweet For this post, we get back to the OFW bank issue by offering a sort of brief rebuttal to the first two (2) objections of Bangko Sentral and the Department of Finance on the proposal of Vice-President Jejomar Binay … Continue reading ͛...
POEA: Illegal recruitment for jobs abroad down by 52% in 2011 by Kabayan Po Ako on Apr 21, 2012The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said the number of illegal recruitment cases last year dropped by 52 percent from the previous year. In an interview with GMA News Online on Thursday, POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said t...
