TWO RECRUITMENT FIRMS SUSPENDED BY POEA
If you are planning to go abroad, particularly in Libya. Just make sure that you are not from the following recruitment agencies that was recently suspended. According to a POEA statement, the two companies, Aquagem International and Sharikat Al Saedi International were found guilty of contract substitution.
This was found after 45 of their workers complained for breach of contract. Cifex World, another recruitment agency was also placed under the POEA watchlist.
According to POEA investigation, the recruiters did not follow the POEA-verified contract signed by the OFWs in Manila. And common scenario is; the workers arrived in Libya but representatives of the recruitment agencies forced the workers to sign another contract providing for a lower salary and different working conditions.
