The recruitment industry yesterday welcomed the directive of President Marcos Jr. to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to cut short the processing of the papers of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from three months to three weeks.
In a statement, recruitment analyst Emmanuel Geslani said that “thousands of OFWs with pending contracts are the beneficiaries of the order of President Marcos Jr to speed up the processing at the POEA for the faster deployment of the OFWs.”
Geslani said the directive will lessen the waiting period for departing overseas workers and “speed up the period for the agencies to process their job orders so as to deploy faster the workers mobilized and selected by employers for deployment.”
He said this will be in contrast to the current experience of recruitment agencies and OFWs with the POEA.
“The recruitment industry efforts to deploy more workers to some jobsites have been stymied by inefficient and incoherent policies of the POEA,” Geslani said.
During his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), Marcos ordered the POEA to hasten the processing time of OFWs, saying he want the period shortened from three months to only three weeks.
