QuestionsQuestions (POEA MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 09)
It issues guidelines governing the publication of advertisements for manpower pooling purposes, pursuant to POEA Memorandum Circular No. 16 (1988), effective immediately, to regulate how agencies recruit and pool applicants for principals.
The request must be supported by manpower requests coming from the principal.
No. The circular provides that no medical examination shall be conducted on applicants responding to the manpower pooling advertisement.
Yes only under a condition: no trade test shall be required unless the cost of the trade test is advanced by the agency concerned.
The agency must advance the amount of the cost of the trade test.
Agencies must submit to the Employment Regulation Branch a status report of all manpower pooling arising from the advertisement within thirty (30) days from the date of publication.
It must state: (1) the number of applicants registered per principal and skill category as advertised; (2) names and addresses of applicants trade tested per skill category; and (3) name of the trade testing outfit, if any.
It is counted from the date of publication of the manpower pooling advertisement.
The agency shall immediately terminate all registration/pooling of applicants for the particular principal.
The agency must submit a terminal report to the Employment Regulation Branch within ten (10) days from the date of termination.
It must state the reasons why accreditation or approval of the job order has not materialized despite considerable time, including the inventory of applicants per the details required under item 4.
Both reports are to be submitted to the Employment Regulation Branch.
Accreditation (by the Accreditation Branch) and approval of the job order (also referenced in item 5) for the principals or manpower requests earlier allowed a manpower pooling advertisement.
No. The circular mandates immediate termination of all registration/pooling for the particular principal if accreditation or job order approval has not been approved after 90 days from publication.
No. Under item 3, trade tests cannot be required unless the agency advances the cost of the trade test.