MANILA, Oct. 3 (PNA) — The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has ordered the preventive suspension of recruitment agencies and employers for misrepresentation of Filipino household worker applicants (HSWs), a modus operandi of some recruitment agencies processing documents of OFWs bound for United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac.
Easyway International Recruitment Agency, Marie Gold International Manpower Services, LBH International Placement Agency, and Chosen Divine Mercy Manpower Services were found to have committed misrepresentation after submitting documents of HSW applicants to POEA under different job titles.
Cacdac said that HSW applicants who fall victim from illegal transactions of these recruitment agencies have acquired visas for office clerks, cleaners, cooks, beauticians, sales persons, and other service workers.
To prevent abuse and exploitation, Cacdac advised HSWs not to accept visas indicating a job title other than of a household service worker.
He added that “HSWs who are deployed using another visa are most likely not ready to work as a household help, because they have not gone through the process of training and certification, and language and culture orientation.”
Aside from the aforementioned recruitment agencies suspended, the following are the foreign agencies and employers who have also been ordered preventive suspension by the POEA: al Hamidieh Restaurant, Al Mansoor Labour Supply, Perfect Hairdressing Salon, Mohammed Saifa, Legrab Almheiri, Smart Filtration Solutions LLC and Saeed Hussan Abdalla Abnar, Dessert Star Fashion Sarjah, al AMathar Al jaya Beauty Salon, Universal Services Center, al massam Trading LLC, Al Najem Trading Services, Hellery Fashion, Aberda Fashion, Abu Baker Al Tuob Trading LLC, Julfar Services Office, 360 Beauty Saloon, and Al Hamtoor Trading LLC.
According to POEA, the preventive suspension ordered upon the recruitment agencies and employers is said to keep them from further recruitment of OFWs, pending investigation of the misrepresentation cases filed against them. (PNA)