THE PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS Employment Administration (POEA) has blacklisted 21 foreign recruitment firms and direct employers to protect Filipinos seeking to work abroad.

In a statement on Sunday, the agency also said it had suspended and cancelled the licenses of more than 20 local recruitment agencies as part of a plan to rid the overseas placement industry of misfits.

POEA said the recruitment agencies were found to have violated the rules from January to July.

The disqualified foreign recruitment agencies or direct employers were AV Global Harvest PTE Ltd., Isa KhouriMetal Industries Ltd. and Amir Khoury, Raffles International Christian School, Al Tauqueet Trading and Services Est/Al Tauqet Trading & Services Co., NooraSalem Saad Occie for Recruitment of Domestic Helpers Office, All Pro Recruitment Agency, and Marwan Slim.

Also disqualified were Food Equipment Supplying Company Limited (Fesco) & Thaer H. Abdou, Wanasah Manpower Supply & Mohammed Naser Al Naser, Bader Contracting & Trading Company/Bard Cont and Trad, Speedy Tech Electronics Co. Ltd., Staff Buro Staffing, Candice Cruz and Allan John Wilton.

Also making it to the blacklist were Jalal Al Jalal Construction Est./ Al Nassr AhssaTrading Contracting Company/Jalal Al Jalal/Saad Saleh Al Jalal, and Marhaba Shopping Center, Hadi Al HamroorContracting Est. and Fawzi Al Najrani Est./Fouzi Saleh Najrani Contracting, Yacht Tours Maldives Pvt. Ltd., and Al Falax Electronics Equipment and Supplies Company/Al Falak Equipment.

Agensi Pekerjaan YSL SDN BHD Lim Pooling and Saw Boon Foong, West Labour Supply and Abdalla Ali Adalla Alsari, Tsaheel Al Janoob Office for Recruitment, Al Bahli Manpower Recruiting Office & Omar Saad Al Hamad, and Special Manpower Supply were likewise blacklisted, according to POEA.

POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said they had to disclose the list to make the public aware.

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