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1.Wonder Travel and Tours Agency (WTTA) is a well-known travel agency and anauthorized sales agent of the Philippine Air Lines. Since majority of its passengers areoverseas workers, WTTA applied for a license for recruitment and placement activities. Itstated in its application that its purpose is not for profit but to help Filipinos findemployment abroad. Should the application be approved?Ans.No, the WTTA's application for a license for recruitment and placement activities shouldnot be approved because the law prohibits the travel agencies and sales agencies of airlinecompanies from engaging in the business of recruitment and placement of employees toemployment abroad, whether for profit or not.2.Asa rule, direct hiring of migrant workers is not allowed. What are theexceptions?Explain your answer.Ans.The exemptions are International Organization, name hires, member of the diplomaticorganizations and other employers as may be allowed by DOLE. The purpose of thedirect hiring ban exemptions is to balance the need to protect OFWs from exploitationand the need to provide accommodations in certain circumstances when direct hiring isnecessary or beneficial.3.The accused X and Y represented themselves to complainants A and B to have thecapacity to send workers abroad, although they did not have any authority or license. It isby this representation that they induced complainants to pay a placement fee. X and Ymay also be liable for.?Ans.X and Y may be liable for illegal recruitment because there is an act of promising thatthey have the capacity or the ability to send workers abroad and their actions directlyviolate the law by engaging in recruitment activities without the authority or license.They also induced the complainants to pay placement fee based on false representation.4.A was approached for possible overseas deployment to Dubai by X, aninterviewer of jobapplicants for Alpha Personnel Services, Inc., an overseas recruitment agency. X requiredA to submit certain documents (passport, NBI clearance, medical certificate) and to payP25,000 as processing fee. Upon payment of the said amount to the agency cashier, Awas advised to wait for his visa. After five months, A visited the office of AlphaPersonnel Services,Inc. during which X told him that he could no longer be deployed foremployment abroad. A was informed by the Philippine OverseasEmployment Administration (POEA) that while Alpha Personnel Services, Inc. was aliceused agency, X was not registered as its employee, contrary to POEA Rules andRegulations. Under POEA Rules and Regulations, the obligation to register personnelwith the POEA belongs to the officers of a recruitment agency.May X be held criminallyliable for illegal recruitment? Explain. (2%)Ans.Yes, X may be held criminally liable for illegal recruitment because X actionsengaging in recruitment activities without appropriate government authority and

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