QuestionsQuestions (POEA GOVERNING BOARD Resolution NO. 01)
It authorizes the POEA Administrator to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to implement the per-contract policy on OWWA membership contributions, subject to determining its viability and legal implications.
A per-contract policy requiring assessment of OWWA membership contributions to overseas Filipino workers to fund welfare and protection programs and services.
All contract workers deployed overseas, whether land-based or sea-based, including those under renewed/extended contracts whether express or implied.
US$25 or its peso equivalent.
Using an exchange rate based on the applicable conversion rate pursuant to a previous agreement with the seabased and land-based sectors embodied in OWWA Memorandum of Instruction No. 104, Series of 1991.
Returning workers on vacation, holidays, emergency leave, and other similar reasons, and those going back to complete their original contract.
The resolution states that efficient collection may be implemented only with the cooperation of POEA.
To enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with OWWA for implementation of the policy.
The resolution requires that the POEA Administrator determine the policy’s viability and legal implication before entering the MOA.
They are included within the covered group and shall be levied the uniform membership fee, whether the renewal/extension is express or implied.
OWWA Memorandum of Instruction No. 104, Series of 1991, which is said to embody the previous agreement with the seabased and land-based sectors.
To justify the per-contract assessment policy as a funding mechanism for OWWA’s mandated welfare and protection functions.
It ties the fee assessment to contractual deployment/contract coverage, which may require counting or billing per contract even for renewals/extended terms, and using uniform rules for land-based and sea-based workers.
POEA is directed to coordinate with OWWA through a Memorandum of Agreement, after assessing viability and legal implications, to implement the uniform per-contract membership fee policy.
Students may ask what constitutes “implied” renewal/extension in practice and how such situations are documented for fee assessment and enforcement.