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2007 News Releases December • POEA book of income open to auditors • No placement fee for Canada-bound OFWs November • POEA all set for influx of returning OFWs this Christmas season • China closed to foreign domestic helpers • POEA not taking over the recruitment of Filipino overseas workers October • POEA cancels license of recruiters for placement fee policy violation September • Barangay official arrested for illegal recruitment August • Arroyo administration leads the way in protecting women workers • Anti-graft body clears POEA official • POEA to pay docket fees of illegal recruitment victims • POEA Board sets controls on “name hires” • POLOs to receive OFW complaints abroad July • Not much jobs for foreigners in China • Illegal recruitment cases filed against owners of recruitment agency • Korea employers to extend contract of OFWs • POEA cancels license of 3 recruitment agencies, suspends 5 others for “re-processing” • Mother and daughter abandoned by recruiters in China • Saudi Ministry of Health needs 5,000 female nurses June • Anti-illegal recruitment seminar required of passport applicants in Zamboanga • Beware of e-mail employment scams • POEA warns immigration consultants, travel agencies • Oman job orders increase, shifts from household to technical and service workers May • DOLE seeks clarification on new Saudi policies • Court of Appeals upholds POEA's jurisdiction over recruitment violation cases • IOM partners with POEA on irregular migration April • New law restores POEA regulatory functions • Rise in deployment of professional and technical workers boosts OFW remittance • Korea increases EPS quota for Filipino workers • No deployment of medical workers to Libya through POEA March • Brion maintains status quo on "wakkala" system • Beware of fraudulent UK job offers in the internet • Deployment ban to Lebanon and Nigeria partially lifted February • Korea ends recruitment for Alien Industrial Trainee System, warns overstaying OFWs • OFWs warned on recruiters for Canada, Korea January • POEA Governing Board relaxes age, training requirements but US$400 salary, no placement fee policy stays • Some recruiters against POEA policies but extorting money from workers • Baldoz warns Korea EPS applicants against illegal recruiters • Baldoz clarifies “deployment of 20,000 DHs” • POEA closes another agency for illegal recruitment • Ren-Glo agency padlocked again POEA News Archive 2006 News Releases

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