POEA revokes license of another recruiter, Experts Placement Agency, Inc.

POEA News Release

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on July 28
cancelled the license of Experts Placement Agency, Inc., which was found to have
attempted to send four female workers to Lebanon using Dubai, United Arab
Emirates as jump-off point.

Administrator Hans Cacdac said Experts Placement Agency, Inc. tried to deploy
the four OFWs as household service workers in Lebanon by having their papers
processed at the POEA using the agency’s existing job orders approved for Dubai.
The workers filed their complaints against the agency after they were barred from
boarding their plane at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport by officers of the
Bureau of Immigration’s Travel Control and Enforcement Unit (TCEU).

Cacdac said the TCEU intercepted the workers because they initially presented
travel papers for Dubai but upon further inspection and questioning, they admitted
that they were actually bound for Lebanon. Documents retrieved from the workers
showed that two of them were supposed to work in Dubai as helpers, and the other
two as archives clerk and sewer respectively.

In his decision, Cacdac found Experts Placement Agency liable for
misrepresentation. The POEA 2002 Rules and Regulations Governing the
Recruitment and Employment of Land-based Overseas Workers prohibits a
recruitment agency from engaging in the acts of misrepresentation such as
furnishing or publishing any false notice, information, and document in relation to
recruitment and employment.

“This is a clear case of re-processing which constitutes misrepresentation
considering that the workers’ destination and employer are different from what
appear on their POEA-processed documents,” Cacdac said.