hans leo j. cacdac · @HansLeoCacdac
29th Aug 2014 from TwitLonger
News Advisory
28 August 2014
POEA suspends recruitment agencies using fake TESDA certificates
Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac has ordered the preventive suspension of two (2) recruitment agencies that submitted fake skills competency certificates of household service workers (HSWs) at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
Cacdac said Global Recruitment Connections-Ph Corporation and Excel Manpower Corporation submitted for processing by the POEA’s Land-based Center in July 2014 documents of HSWs, including their respective TESDA-NC2 certificates.
Possession of a National Certificate Level 2 (NC2) issued by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority is required of household service workers bound for overseas employment. The deploying recruitment agency is mandated to submit proof of compliance with the NC2 requirement as a condition for processing and issuance of an exit clearance by the POEA.
Cacdac said that in the course of evaluation of the documents of the HSWs, the POEA evaluation officer detected that the NC2 certificates of the OFWs submitted by the two agencies have no security features. The Manila District Office of TESDA verified that the NC2 certificates were all fake, indicating clear violation of the POEA Rules and Regulations.
Cacdac said Global Recruitment submitted six (6) fake TESDA-NC2 certificates and Excel Manpower Corporation presented nine (9) forged certificates.
The order of preventive suspension (OPS) issued to Excel Manpower Corporation and Global Recruitment Connections effectively prohibits the recruitment agencies from recruitment and deployment of overseas Filipino workers pending investigation and subsequent filing of appropriate recruitment violation cases against them.
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