OFW – Overseas Filipino News

People from the countryside continue to be fooled by illegal job recruiters, the National Bureau of investigation disclosed Tuesday.

SURIGAO CITY – Authorities here arrested an American and his Filipina wife for alleged large-scale illegal recruitment of Filipinos applying for work abroad.

A memorandum of agreement has been signed in a move to reinforce the fight against illegal recruitment.

Authorities have arrested six persons who duped an aspiring overseas Filipino worker (OFW) into paying a large sum of money in exchange for a non-existent job abroad, Vice President Noli De Castro said.

A total of 456 more jobseekers have surfaced to file complaints against two women being hunted by police for large-scale illegal recruitment, the Task Force Anti-Illegal Recruitment (Tfair) said Saturday.

A woman who goes by different names is being hunted by the police for tricking more than 700 Filipino workers to part with their money for non-existent jobs in the United Kingdom.

Vice President Noli De Castro on Wednesday urged victims of illegal recruitment to seek help from his task force so that the culprits would be thrown to where they belong — in jail.

About five hundred women were virtually held hostage in Manila, locked inside a decrepit six-story building, uncertain if the agency that recruited them would ever place them in jobs overseas.

An alleged illegal recruiter offering nursing jobs in Canada was arrested in a police sting operation in Bacolod City Thursday, an online news site reported Friday.

The Department of Labor and Employment will use the full force of law against illegal recruitment agencies.