Recruitment agency suspended for evading deployment ban

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has suspended the license of FMJ
International Manpower and Allied Services Inc. for using visas issued to sales and
restaurant workers to deploy domestic workers to other employers in Jordan.

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac said the POEA has stopped processing of contracts of
newly-hired Filipino household service workers for Jordan since January 2008.

Cacdac said the POEA, on its own, initiated a complaint against FMJ International for
violation of the POEA Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment
of Land-based Overseas Workers based on a letter-complaint of Mr. Semean Dahdal,
human resource manager of Aqaba Grand Stores in Amman, Jordan.

Mr. Dahdal alleged that “FMJ International, Aqaba’s recruitment agent in the Philippines,
has abused the job orders issued to it”.

“Upon verification through Aseza of Aqaba and the Ministry of Labor in Amman, the names
on the list are all entered as housemaids in Jordan with different sponsors and different
local housemaid agencies”, Mr. Dahdal said in his letter.

Cacdac said misrepresentation in connection with recruitment and placement of workers,
and falsifying or altering travel document of an applicant worker in relation to overseas
recruitment activities are acts prohibited under Section 2 , Rule I, Part VI of the POEA rules
and regulation.

In his order, Cacdac said “… we find strong prima facie evidence of violations of the
aforementioned provisions against respondent FMJ International Manpower and Allied
Services Inc. and that exists a reasonable ground to believe that the continued recruitment
and deployment of OFWs by the said respondent agency will result in further violation and
exploitation of migrant workers.”

Cacdac said the suspension order will remain pending investigation of the case and
determination of other possible charges against FMJ International.- POEA

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