The Philippine Overseas Employment and Migration (POEA) and the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) presented on July 12,
2012 laws that would determine that illegal recruitment and trafficking
in person are present during the hiring and recruitment of applicants
abroad.
Lawyer Antonio Millanes III of POEA
presented five problems of illegal recruitment. He said illegal
recruitment exist alongside legal migration, maybe committed by bothe
licensed and unlicensed agencies, illegal recruiters may take advantage
of announced job opportunities as an opportunity to dupe unsuspecting
applicants, victims indifference and imbalance manpower supply.
The training was held at the provincial training center at the D.O. Plaza Government Center in Agusan del Sur.
“But
these problems can be controlled by two prolonged nationwide
anti-illegal recruitment campaign if we join our hands in delivering
information and this is in the preventive side plus systematic law
enforcement and prosecution on the remedial side,” Atty. Millanes III
said.
Lawyer Jone Fung of the OIM said illegal recruitment shall
mean any act of canvassing, enlisting, transporting, contracting, hring,
utilizing, procuring of workers, referrals, contact services, promising
and advertising for employment abroad, and Atty. Fung has elaborated
all those acts in actual experience they have while enforcing the laws
on against illegal recruitment.
“Before we trust anybody when we
apply for work abroad, we have to see to it that the representative or
agent can show us that the person or entity that he is representing has a
valid license or holder of authority. We must also make sure that the
agent or the representative transacting with us has been duly appointed
by the license or holder of the authority and that the agent’s
appointment was previously authorized by the POEA,” Fung said.
Glad
of the training being conducted, Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza asked the
POEA, , the DOLE and other government agencies to encourage legal and
stable recruitment agencies to conduct recruitment in Agusan del Sur
because according to him, the provincial government has set aside funds
to help the applicants in processing the necessary requirements in order
that they can work abroad. Gov. Plaza added that the provincial
government is doing this because they want the families of Agusanons to
have a better life, and the money that they will send to their families
will only revolve in the province, while foreseeing that business and
stability will follow.
The whole day activity ended up with
training of the PNP and the prosecutors on criminal investigation and
entrapment procedures and the discussion on the law on anti-trafficking
in person.
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