Advisories
2014 November
- Training centers are not allowed to recruit OFWs
- POEA padlocks immigration consultancy firm recruiting workers for New Zealand
- Two recruiters get suspension orders for deceiving OFWs about household work
- POEA to OFWs: Don’t leave with 2 visas
2014 October
- POEA to returning OFWs: Go online, don’t fall in line
- Submission of fake documents is misrepresentation
- Another recruiter loses license for misrepresentation
- Recruiter gets 40 months suspension for submitting fake TESDA certificates
- POEA suspends recruiters, employers bypassing HSW rules
- Two Filipina nurses pass qualifying exam in Germany
2014 September
Recruiter suspended for collecting excessive placement fee
POEA reiterates advice on MERS-Co
POEA suspends recruitment agency, New Zealand employer
2014 August
POEA Cancels Recruiters' License for Overcharging (12 August 2014)
POEA Revokes License of Another Recruiter (1 August 2014)
2014 July
- POEA prevents OFWs from returning to Afghanistan
- Consultancy firm staff get life term for illegal recruitment
- Attention: Nurses and Caregivers
- POEA warns nurses anew on email scam
2014 June
- Deployment ban on Iraqi Kurdistan Region for new hires
- POEA investigates another “lazy recruiter”
- POEA padlocks recruiter’s office
- Oman bans visa transfers for foreign workers
- POEA marks Migrant Workers Day with OFWs
- POEA warns OFWs on certain jobs in Canada
- Recruiter suspended for providing OFW with two visas
- Suspected illegal recruiters arrested
- Filipino nurses deployed to Germany through Triple Win Project
2014 May
- POEA governing board imposes total deployment ban on OFWs to Libya
- Baldoz urges OFWs in Libya to be vigilant; POEA Governing Board temporarily bans deployment of new-hires
- POEA stops deployment of new OFWs to Thailand
- Recruiters and employer of HSW drenched with boiling water suspended
- How to spot legitimate ads for overseas jobs
- Fishermen are seafarers and should not be charged placement fee
- Recruiter fails to deploy workers, loses license
- 8 agencies prevented from recruitment of OFWs
- POEA revokes license of another recruiter
- Recruitment agency's license cancelled
- Recruiter gets 40 months suspension of license
2014 April
2014 March
- For misrepresentation, POEA cancels license of recruiter
- Recruitment agency loses license for illegal charging of placement fee
- No work for worm pickers
- Warning on bogus POEA employee
- OFWs as models of good behavior
- POEA stops deployment of new workers for Venezuela and Ukraine
2014 February
- POEA cancels license of recruiter for Taiwan
- President Aquino III fetes outstanding licensed recruitment agencies
2014 January
- POEA stops deployment of OFWs to Bangkok, 3 Thailand provinces
- Visit visas are for tourists, work visas are for workers
- POEA closes down visa consultancy office
- 3 recruitment agencies suspended for trafficking
Date last updated: Nov 26th 2014, 13:37