{"id":27977,"date":"2014-10-05T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27977"},"modified":"2014-10-06T04:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:21:42","slug":"recruiter-suspended-for-overcharging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/05\/recruiter-suspended-for-overcharging\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiter suspended for overcharging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11795\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/POEA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/POEA-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/POEA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/POEA.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A recruiter was suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for overcharging fees.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 Filipino factory workers filed separate complaints against Lexus Incorporated for overcharging at the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Labor Affairs in Kaohsiung on July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to POEA Administration Hans Leo Cacdac, the workers allegedly said that Lexus asked them placement fees ranging from P90,000 to P130,000. The workers also signed employment contracts with a monthly salary of about P28,000. Moreover, the agency did not give receipts for their payments.<\/p>\n<p>Cacdac noted that a recruitment agency is only authorized to collect an amount equivalent to one-month salary from its hired workers, exclusive of documentation and processing costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Section 2 b, Rule 1, Part 6 of the 2002 POEA Rules and Regulations prohibits &#8220;charging or accepting directly or indirectly any amount greater than that specified in the schedule of allowable fees prescribed by the Secretary, or making a worker pay any amount greater than that actually received by him as a loan or advance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Filipino job seekers should not patronize licensed recruiters that do not follow the government\u2019s placement fee, Cacdac advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A recruiter was suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for overcharging fees. About 20 Filipino factory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[969],"class_list":["post-27977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-poea","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}