December 2022

Phil. Overseas Overseas

Employment Workers Welfare
Administration Administration
JEANY ANN T. PANGILINAN

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POEA
Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration(POEA) is an
attached agency of DOLE tasked
to oversea the recruitment and
deployment of Filipino workers for
overseas employment, as well as
monitor and protect their welfare.

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POEA
This is created through PD No. 797 in 1982 to promote and
monitor Filipino workers' overseas employment program.

PD No. 247 reformed the POEA in 1987 to also reinforce

components that protect Filipino employees & the
overseas employment program.

RA No. 10002 of 1995, POEA was moved and its functions

transferred to DMW.
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Core Functions
INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT
REGULATION FACILITATION
WORKERS
PROTECTION
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Industry Regulation
Issues license to private recruitment Implements a system of incentives
and shipping manning companies and penalty for private sector
participants
Hears and arbitrates complaints and
cases filed against reported violation Conduct agency education and
of POEA rules and regulations, agency performance evaluation
except for money claims program

Sets minimum labor standards Monitors overseas job advertisement

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Employment Facilitation
Approves manpower
Accredits/registers requests of foreign
foreign principals and principals and
employers hiring employers.
Filipino workers.
Assists departing workers
Evaluates and process at the ports of exit
employment
provide a system of
contracts of OFWs
worker’s registry
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Employment Facilitation
Facilitates the
Develops and monitors deployment of workers
labor markets and hired through a G2G
conducts market research arrangement.
Enters into & implement
Conduct Pre-Deployment
memorandum of
Orientation
understanding on the hiring of
Seminars(PDOS) to
Filipinos with labor–receiving
prospective OFWs.
countries.
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Workers Protection
provides legal
Intensifies public education
assistance to victims of
and information campaign;
illegal recruitment;

provides technical assistance

OFW global mapping
in the drafting of bilateral and
and profiling;
multilateral agreements;

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Workers Protection

implements gender-sensitive
programs; provides repatriation
assistance ;
networks with non-
government organizations,
maintains database of
workers’ organizations, etc.;
workers

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Programs and Services

General Administration
and Support Services —
Assist WELL(Welfare,
Employment, Livelihood – computer support,
and Legal) Program – financial management,
– human resource
mangement

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Programs and Services

online Pre- Employment OFW Record Online
Orientation Seminar Appointment
(POES)
registration for Seafarers
OEC Balik-Manggagawa
Verification of Agency’s
Online Processing
Job Orders.
System

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OWWA
According to owwa.gov.ph, the
Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA) is an
attached agency of the (DOLE) and
a membership institution that
protects and promotes the welfare
of the OFW's and their dependents

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Function

OWWA is concerned with the

well-being of OFWs and their
families. It can be found at all three
stages of migration: before
departure, on-site, and upon arrival.

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Functions

1. OWWA educates first-time 2. In abroad, OWWA

workers on the realities of assists OFWs when they
overseas work before they have problems with their
leave. employers.

3. When the OFW returns, OWWA is ready

with its livelihood trainings and
reintegration programs.
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Programs and Services

1. Social Benefits
 Disability and Dismemberment

 Supplementary Medical Assistance (MED plus)

 Death and Burial

 Welfare Assistance Program(WAP)

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Programs and Services

2. Education and Training
 Scholarship for Dependents

 Short-term Training for OFW's and Dependents

 Seafarer's Upgrading Program( SUP)

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Programs and Services

3. Repatriation Assistance Program

4. Reintegration
 Balik Pinas! Balik Hanapbuhay Program

 Tulong Puso

 OFW Enterprise Development and Loan Program

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Programs and Services

5. E- Services
 OFW Assistance Information System (OASIS)
 OFW E-CARD Application
 OWWA Rebate Portal
 OFW e-CARD Tracker
 OWWA mobile App

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Programs and Services

6. Special Projects
 DOLE-AKAP
 Tabang OFW
 OWWA Rebate
 Project EASE
 Tuloy-Aral Project (TAP)

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Conclusion
Despite the differences and overlapping
functions, both POEA and OWWA, a sister
agencies under the DOLE were were established
to protect the welfare of overseas Filipino workers

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Conclusion
As their mission and goals are very similar, they work hand in
hand but their main difference lies in their functions. POEA is
the agency that the worker will go to before he leaves to
work abroad. Most of the things that an OFW would do to
ensure legal status would be done at POEA.l Whilee OWWa,
is the agency to go to once the worker is already deployed
overseas.

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References
https://owwamember.com/poea-philippine-overseas-employment-
administration/#Employment_Facilitation-2

https://www.dmw.gov.ph/archives/programs/programs&services.html

https://owwamember.com/ofw-owwa-programs/

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