THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned employed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against so-called “third country” recruitment schemes.

The POEA, in a report to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd, issued the warning over the weekend following complaints from Filipino household service workers (HSWs) in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cyprus who were lured into transferring to another country like Dubai, Mongolia, Turkey and Russia but later found out the conditions of employment to be least ideal or worse, the offered jobs were non-existent.

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