THE SUPREME COURT “cautioned” accredited recruitment agencies on their role of safeguarding the welfare of overseas Filipino workers , citing an Oct. 2021 ruling in favor of a dismissed employee in Taiwan.
In a 29-page decision dated Oct. 6, penned by Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesumundo, the court ordered a recruitment agency and its foreign party to pay the family of a former OFW in Taiwan who was unlawfully fired after he was found to have been suffering from a disease. The Taiwanese company and the recruitment agency were ordered by the court to pay the family of the respondent NT$ 102,528 worth of unpaid salaries, and an additional P1 million as financial assistance.
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