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Baguio, POEA to eliminate operations of illegal recruiters
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Oct 7, 2008 - 3:23:22 AM
BAGUIO
CITY, Oct. 8 (PNA) - The Baguio city government and the Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) are set to implement measures
to eliminate illegal recruiters in the area to protect the interests of
hundreds of qualified residents applying for jobs abroad.
City
Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. said a number of the natives of the
Cordillera region in northern Luzon were among the more than 7,000 job
applicants nationwide who were duped by alleged illegal recruiters last
year.
He
said the joint undertaking of making Baguio as "illegal
recruitment-free" was embodied in a recent memorandum of agreement
(MOA) which he and Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)
administrator Jennifer Hardin-Manalili signed.
Records
show that due to the success of the educational system here and the
region which include the technical-vocational education program, the
Cordilleras had contributed a great percentage to the total
Philippines' overseas contract workers in the past five years. (PNA)
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