| The stepped-up campaign was waged following President Joseph Erap Ejercito
Estradas fresh crackdown on illegal recruiters in the light of the
suspected systematic murder of OFWs, whose organs are being sold by an
international syndicate in cahoots with unscrupulous Filipino recruiters. |
| -Render free legal assistance to qualified complaining workers or victims of
illegal recruitment who seek their services or are referred to them by the
POEA and the OWWA; |
| The agreement ensures OFWs free access to the courts and the non-denial of
legal assistance by reason of poverty, according to POEA Administrator
Reynaldo Regalado. |
| What good has the Life, Auto, and Health insurance if the legal arena
takes what they saved?
Now for a very small monthly cost you have that protection. |
| Manila, Sept. 14,1998 - The Estrada administrations legal offensive against
illegal recruiters and their foreign cohorts has been intensified with the
recent signing in Davao City of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would
provide free legal services to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have
been victimized by illegal recruiters . |
