Kaya dapat lamang na bawiin ang illegal placement fees na kinokolekta ng mga recruitment agencies. Dapat na mahigpit na maiplementa ang guidelines na ito at parusahan ang mga tiwaling recruitment agencies. ============================================= New OFW placement fee rules set By Samuel P. Medenilla mb.ph/News/Metro_News/24979/New_OFW_placement_fee_rules_set#.UfxTSdI3Ask Published: July 31, 2013 Manila, Philippines -- Erring recruitment agencies, which continue to prey on overseas Filipino workers (OFW), will face stiffer penalties under the new guidelines of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s (POEA). In a two-page Governing Board (GB) resolution, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the new stringent measures aim to eliminate the practice of charging illegal placement fees to OFWs. POEA’s Rules IV and V prohibit the practice by some unscrupulous recruitment agencies against land-based and sea-based OFWs, respectively. Violators of these provisions will face cancellation of their recruitment licenses. “Despite the prohibition and gravity of the penalty, the practice of illegal exactions and excessive placement fee collection continue to prevail among recruitment agencies to the detriment of our OFWs,” Baldoz, who also chairs the POEA-GB, said. “These considerations compel the adoption of a stringent policy in handling complaints of illegal exaction and excessive collection of placement fees,” she added. Under the new guidelines, erring recruitment agency, who illegally charged fees to their clients for the first time could still undergo conciliation, where they will be required to refund the collected fund. If they will commit it for the second time, they will no longer undergo conciliation. Instead they will be immediately investigated by the POEA Docket Suspension and Enforcement Division (PDSED). The PDSED will issue suspension order against them if they will commit succeeding similar infraction involving five or more workers. “It is hereby resolved to require the POEA and all the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices to adopt the following guidelines in the handling of complaints of illegal and excessive placement collections,” Baldoz said. During the first half of the year, POEA was able to sanction at least 60 erring recruitment agencies. Most of them were apprehended for charging illegal fees.
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