"All first-time documented or registered overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) planning or scheduled to go to the Philippines and would return to the same employers are still requested to secure the mandatory overseas employment certificate (OEC)," Labour Attache for Dubai and the Northern Emirates Felicitas Q. Bay said to clear the confusion brought about by the Administrative 155 recently issued by the Department of Labor and Employment.
The application for OEC exemption for registered OFWs going to the Philippines and who would be reporting back to the same employers still remains as is.
Copies of the AO had been posted and shared many times over on the social media, particularly over Social media.Numerous comments have shown confusion to the part of the OFWs.
At the press conference with Consul General Paul Raymund Cortes at the Philippine Consulate General, Bay shared that as a consequence, the Philippine Overseas Labour Office-Dubai received an avalanche of all sorts of queries on their email, whether or not the OEC is necessary to be applied for by OFWs from Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah scheduled for a trip back home.
Bay clarified first that the AO was decided upon for the protection of every directly-hired OFW.
Since Bello had been tipped about some alleged corrupt practices of POEA employees with regard to the issuance of OEC to the direct hires, this measure has been made to prevent the OFWs from being victimized by such fraudulent schemes.
Source: Gulf Today
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