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About POEA
- Its Creation
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The POEA was created in 1982 by EO No.
797. The law provided for the integratio of the functions of
the Overseas Employment Development Board, the National
Seaman’s Board and the Bureau of Employment Services. EO No.
247 expanded its powers and functions when it was
reorganized in 198
Legal Mandate
PD 797 (1982)
· promote and develop the overseas
employment program
· protect the rights of migrant workers
EO 247 (1987)
· regulate private sector participation
in recruitment and overseas placement maintain registry of
skills
· secure best terms of employment for
OFWs
RA 8042 (1995)
· tripartism
· full disclosure
· deregulation
· selective deployment
· dynamism in systems and information
technology
RA 9422 (2007)
· reinforced regulatory function
· protect the rights of OFW as a worker
and human being
Structure
The POEA has an organizational structure
with the POEA Governing Board at the top. The Secretary of
Labor and Employment heads the Governing Board, and the POEA
Administrator as vice-chairman and representatives from the
private, women, sea-based and land-based sectors as members.
The POEA Administrator oversees the daily
operations of the agency and is supported by three deputy
administrators.
The Deputy Administrator for Employment
and Welfare oversees the Pre-Employment Services Office and
the Welfare and Employment Office.
Under the Deputy Administrator for
Adjudication and Employment Regulation are the Licensing and
Regulation Office and the Adjudication Office
The Deputy Administrator for Management
handles the general administrative and support services of
the administration.
Clientele
An average of 3,000 clients and as much as 5,000 clients
s are served by POEA main office daily. Our clients include
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Licensed Recruitment and
Manning Agencies Foreign Employers/Principals Applicants –
Workers/ Would be Applicants, NGOs, media, and the general
public.
Regional Offices
The POEA has three (3) Regional Centers
which are located in La Union for Luzon, Cebu for the
Visayas region and Davao for the Mindanao area.
Regional Extension Units are in Baguio-Cordillera
Administrative Region, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga
while satellite offices are located in Pampanga, Calamba,
Laguna, Legaspi, Bacolod and Tacloban.
Core Functions
Industry Regulation
Issues license to engage in overseas
recruitment and manning to private recruitment agencies and
ship manning companies
Hears and arbitrates complaints and cases
filed against recruitment and manning agencies, foreign
principals and employers, and overseas workers for reported
violation of POEA rules and regulations, except for money
claims
Implements a system of incentives and
penalty for private sector participants
Sets minimum labor standards
Monitors overseas job advertisements on
print, broadcast and television
Supervises the government’s program on
anti-illegal recruitment
Imposes disciplinary actions on erring
employers and workers and seafarers
- Employment Facilitation
Accredits/ registers foreign principals
and employers hiring Filipino workers
Approves manpower requests of foreign
principals and employers
Evaluates and processes employment
contracts
Assists departing workers at the ports of
exit
Develops and monitors markets and
conducts market research
Conducts marketing missions
Enters into memorandum of understanding
on the hiring of Filipino workers with labor–receiving
countries
Facilitates the deployment of workers
hired through government-to-government arrangement
Provides a system of worker’s registry
- Worker’s Protection
Intensifies public education and
information campaign
Conducts pre-employment orientation and
anti-illegal recruitment seminars nationwide
Conducts Pre-Deployment Orientation
Seminars (PDOS) to workers hired through the
government-to-government arrangement and name hires
Forges MOAs with LGUs on AIR
Provides technical assistance in the
drafting of bilateral and multilateral agreements
Provides legal assistance to victims of
illegal recruitment
Maintains a data base of workers
documented by the POEA
Prepares OFW global mapping and profiling
Implements gender-sensitive programs
Networks with non-government
organizations, workers’ organizations, etc.
Provides repatriation assistance
- General Administration and Support Services
Human Resources Development
Property and Supplies Management
Financial Management
Information and Communication Technology
Plans and Policy Development
Quality Management System
Program
Thrusts for 2008
INDUSTRY REGULATION
Continuing Agency Education and Agency
Performance Evaluation/Ranking and Classification System
- Pre-application orientation seminar
- Labor market fora
- Seminar on best
recruitment practices
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Implementation of comprehensive case management
program
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- Conciliation
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- Adjudication
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- Monitoring of appeals
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- Enforcement of decisions
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- EMPLOYMENT FACILITATION
Facilitation of 1 million OFW deployment
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- Dispatch of technical marketing missions
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- Intensify marketing intelligence work
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- Pursue bilateral/multi-lateral agreements
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- Encourage visit of foreign gov’ts and employers
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- Strengthen linkages with education and training sector
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- Enhance coordination with host governments
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- Enforce policy on skills competencies
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- WORKERS PROTECTION
Global OFW mapping and profiling
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Fast track
information on OFWs worldwide, their work sites, skills, and
gender. The target
countries for 2008 are: KSA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, UAE, KUWAIT,
QATAR, HONG KONG, LEBANON, SOUTH KOREA, BAHRAIN, SINGAPORE,
JORDAN, ISRAEL, OMAN, UK, USA, MALAYSIA, BRUNEI, CYPRUS,
CANADA, AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN, ALGERIA, ANGOLA,
IRAN, IRAQ, NIGERIA, YEMEN
Intensification of AIR campaign
PREVENTIVE
- Pre-employment orientation seminars
- Illegal recruitment free-LGUs
- Multi-media information and education program
REMEDIAL
- Legal
assistance to IR victims
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Surveillance/Entrapment operations
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Arrests
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Prosecution
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Closure of establishments
Implementation of incentive program for
victims and witnesses of illegal recruitment
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- Payment of docket fees and other court or legal fees
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- Employment without placement fees
Provision of on-site remedies to OFWs to file
complaints against employer or agency
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OFWs may file complaints for violations of POEA rules
against principal, employer, and/or Philippine recruitment
agency at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office s (POLOs)
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