hans leo j. cacdac · @HansLeoCacdac
22nd May 2014 from TwitLonger
POEA orders preventive suspension of recruitment agencies, employer of abused OFW
Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday said the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) had ordered the preventive suspension of A-M Phil. Professional Services Corporation, Al Motkasses Recruitment Office/Almotkasses Office for Gen. Services, and Adil Akmad Badjuid, for violation of the 2002 POEA Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Land-Based Workers.
"An order of preventive suspension (OPS) had been served against these entities yesterday after the POEA found strong evidence showing that they committed serious violations in processing the employment documents of OFW Pahima Alagasi Palacasi who was deployed as household service worker to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)," Baldoz said, citing a report of POEA Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac.
"The case has been docketed and is now at the POEA Adjudication Office headed by Director Jeriel Domingo," said Cacdac in his report.
According to the order, records show that A-M Phil. Professional Services Corporation and Al Motkasses Recruitment Office/Almotkasses Office for Gen. Services did not render any assistance to OFW Palacasi after she suffered maltreatment at the hands of her employer.
“With the foregoing circumstances, we have reasonable grounds to believe that the respondents’ continued operation will result to further violation and circumvention of the 2002 POEA Rules and Regulations and exploitation of workers being recruited, deployed, or those already at the worksite,” the OPS further states.
Cacdac said that A-M Phil Professional Services Corporation will preventively suspended from participating in the overseas employment program pending investigation of the recruitment violation case filed against it.
“The names of the said agencies and employers shall be included in the POEA list of agencies/principals temporarily disqualified to participate in the overseas employment program while there is an ongoing investigation on the case of OFW Palacasi,” he added.
OFW Palacasi arrived in Riyadh last March 2014. A few days after arriving at the house of her employer, she already suffered kicks and lashes from her male employer. She was also transferred to the house of her employer’s mother after the wife refused to accept her when she came back from the Saudi Recruitment Agency (SRA). It was because of a simple misunderstanding between the OFW and the sponsor’s mother who does not speak English, which prompted the latter to pour boiling water on her.
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