All About Illegal Recruitment

All About Illegal Recruitment

• What is illegal recruitment
• Penalties for illegal recruitment
• Identify an illegal recruiter
• How to avoid illegal recruitment
• Modus operandi of illegal recruiters
• Policy on immigration consultants
• Tips to job applicants using the internet in job search
• Top 10 Internet Scams
• Overseas Job Scams
• Sample job scam emails

What is Illegal Recruitment?

Any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring workers and includes referring, contract services, promising or advertising for employment abroad, whether for profit or not, when undertaken by a non-license or non-holder of authority contemplated under Art 13 (F) of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines: Provided, That any such non-licensee or non-holder who, in any manner, offers or promises for a fee employment abroad to two or more persons shall be deemed so engaged. (sec. 6, RA 8042).

It shall likewise include the following acts, whether committed by any persons, whether a non-licensee, non-holder, licensee or holder of authority.

(a) To charge or accept directly or indirectly any amount greater than the specified in the schedule of allowable fees prescribed by the Secretary of Labor and Employment, or to make a worker pay any amount greater than that actually received by him as a loan or advance;

(b) To furnish or publish any false notice or information or document in relation to recruitment or employment;

(c) To give any false notice, testimony, information or document or commit any act of misrepresentation for the purpose of securing a license or authority under the Labor Code;

(d) To induce or attempt to induce a worker already employed to quit his employment in order to offer him another unless the transfer is designed to liberate a worker from oppressive terms and conditions of employment;

(e) To influence or attempt to influence any persons or entity not to employ any worker who has not applied for employment through his agency;

(f) To engage in the recruitment of placement of workers in jobs harmful to public health or morality or to dignity of the Republic of the Philippines;

(g) To obstruct or attempt to obstruct inspection by the Secretary of Labor and Employment or by his duly authorized representative;

(h) To fail to submit reports on the status of employment, placement vacancies, remittances of foreign exchange earnings, separations from jobs, departures and such other matters or information as may be required by the Secretary of Labor and Employment;

(i) To substitute or alter to the prejudice of the worker, employment contracts approved and verified by the Department of Labor and Employment from the time of actual signing thereof by the parties up to and including the period of the expiration of the same without the approval of the Department of Labor and Employment;

(j) For an officer or agent of a recruitment or placement agency to become an officer or member of the Board of any corporation engaged in travel agency or to be engaged directly on indirectly in the management of a travel agency;

(k) To withhold or deny travel documents from applicant workers before departure for monetary or financial considerations other than those authorized under the Labor Code and its implementing rules and regulations;

(l) Failure to actually deploy without valid reasons as determined by the Department of Labor and Employment; and

(m) Failure to reimburse expenses incurred by the workers in connection with his documentation and processing for purposes of deployment, in cases where the deployment does not actually take place without the worker's fault. Illegal recruitment when committed by a syndicate or in large scale shall be considered as offense involving economic sabotage.

Illegal recruitment is deemed committed by a syndicate carried out by a group of three (3) or more persons conspiring or confederating with one another. It is deemed committed in large scale if committed against three (3) or more persons individually or as a group.

The persons criminally liable for the above offenses are the principals, accomplices and accessories. In case of juridical persons, the officers having control, management or direction of their business shall be liable.

Simple Priceless Memories

You're missing simple priceless events if you're not with your family everyday. No amount of any resources can bring back memories. Memories are experiences we cherish forever.



1. Your children battling their way to sleep beside you. Hugging you while sleeping and dreaming great dreams that includes you.

2. Your children learning how to share their toys to their friends or more likely resisting to share their toys but with you beside them, toys are less meaningful and more likely they will share because you are beside them. Normal compensating actions ofw ocw provide their family is the monetary and material benefit they can provide.

3. Your children whispering their real innocent thoughts to you. Oftentimes their sincere love thoughts for you.

4. Smelling the scent of your children good or not good, they are like flowers to your nose. Have you ever wondered how parents can handle changing your diapers for many years?

5. Kiss your children. Your children kissing you whenever and however they want as many times as possible daily.

6. Technology is better than ever but being present in every occasion is the only way to create real memories. How can technology capture the smell of the environment? How can technology capture the feeling of each individual in the event? How can technology give you the feeling of having the sense of your touch?

7. Your children waking up and seeing the most beautiful face in this world. Hint its your face and your lifetime partner’s face.

8. Sharing your life lessons you learn yourself and from your parents. Facing life is a lot easier if you have someone hold your hand through life challenges.

9. College graduation. You guide a human being to be prepared to face the real life, outside of school and the comfort of your guidance and home.


10. Your children having their own family . You guide a person not just to be a fisherman to catch the blessings of life but as a teacher of many fisherman to lift as much soul as you and your children can.