P’sinan, Prov’l PESO awarded as POEA’s Best Partners in the Anti-Illegal Recruitment Campaign
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LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The provincial government of Pangasinan led by Governor Amado I. Espino, III and Pangasinan Provincial Employment Services Offices were recognized by Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for their collective efforts and contributions in attaining an illegal-recruitment free society.
Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr., representing Governor Espino, and several Sangguniang Panlalawigan members received the Best Partner in Anti-Illegal Recruitment (PAIR) Award for the province of Pangasinan conferred by POEA administrator shortly after regular flag-raising ceremony held at the Capitol Plaza on December 1.
The award covers the outstanding contributions of POEA partners in terms of information dissemination, employment orientation and seminars, and other initiatives for the period January 2013 to December 2016.
Consequently, the Provincial Employment Services Office (PESO) headed by Alex F. Ferrer was awarded as “Outstanding Provincial PESO-Partner in Luzon” for its achievements in the nationwide anti-illegal recruitment drive and against trafficking-in-persons of the administration.
POEA Central OIC – Director of Licensing and Regulation Office Arlen Basas, said that among 694 agencies, LGUs and other private entities who forged partnership with POEA in convergence of the anti-illegal recruitment (AIR) campaign, LGU Pangasinan emerged as the best partner of the government in curbing illegal recruitment and trafficking in person in Luzon.
“This is the only province nationwide which created a database in monitoring illegal recruitment cases,” Basas added as she stressed that 28 cases of illegal recruitment were identified in the province during the evaluation period over the years.
Accordingly, this year, POEA received 132 cases of illegal recruitment and four of them had been resolved to conviction of illegal recruiters.
The Best PAIR award is also given to other POEA partners in NCR, Visayas and Mindanao who have helped to intensify the campaign against illegal recruitment and trafficking-in-persons.
Furthermore, this award also aims to inspire LGUs, PESOs and other anti-illegal recruitment partners to sustain and have more vigorous undertakings to implement the objectives and purposes of the MOA on the AIR campaign and launch other activities relative to curbing illegal recruitment. /Shiella Mae C. De Guzman
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