Guidelines on the Registration of Direct Individual Employers of Household Service Workers

March 22, 2018POEA MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 005-18TO:All Concerned   SUBJECT:Guidelines on the Registration of Direct Individual Employers of Household Service Workers Pursuant to Republic Act No. 8042 that provides for the deployment of Filipino overseas workers whether landbased or seabased by local service contractors and manning agencies employing them shall be encouraged in relation to the provisions of Section 96, Rule I, Part III, of the Revised POEA Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Landbased Overseas Filipino Workers of 2016, and in order to facilitate the processing of the employment documents of household service workers for direct individual employers whose employers do not belong to the automatic exempted category enumerated under Section 124, a, b, and c, the following guidelines are hereby issued: A.      VERIFICATION/AUTHENTICATIONThe following documents shall be submitted to the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) by the said employer for verification or authentication by the Philippine Embassy/Consulate in countries where there are no POLOs:1.      A copy of the formal arrangement between the individual direct employer and the designated Philippine Recruitment Agency...