QuestionsQuestions (POEA MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 63 S. 1992)
It provides guidelines for processing Filipino seafarers’ employment contracts during weekends and holidays without jeopardizing emergency deployment and urgent replacement.
At the Labor Assistance Center (LAC) at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
All licensed manning agencies, accredited shipping companies, and the seafarers concerned may avail through the LAC.
Three (3) hours before the expected time of departure of the seafarers concerned.
A letter request; confirmed ticket with xerox copies; one-page contract of seafarers (2 copies); valid Seaman’s Service Record Book (SSRB); valid Seaman’s Registration Card (SRC); seafarer info sheet; seafarer ID sheet; and an undertaking covering specified representations and compliance items.
Among others: (1) foreign principal accreditation and vessel enrollment with approved salary scale; (2) position availability and that seafarers are not on watchlist; (3) seafarers’ departure schedule (Saturday, Sunday, or Monday morning or that holiday); (4) submission of proofs for urgent dispatch requests received after office hours/last working day/when normal processing is no longer possible; (5) presentation of copies of issued tickets and official receipts as proof of actual deployment; and (6) payment of processing fees and welfare fund contribution the next day and penalties for misrepresentation.
When urgent dispatch is requested by foreign principal/agency at a time when the processing office can no longer process at the Contract Processing Branch (PSO)—particularly after office hours of the last working days of the week, on weekends, and on holidays.
Any misrepresentation committed by them shall be penalized by suspension of license after due investigation in accordance with POEA Rules and Regulations.
Two Hundred Fifty Pesos (P250.00).
Immediately on the following working day.
POEA copies from the LAC are endorsed to ECPB; ECPB coordinates updates of job order balances, monitors payment of required fees, and endorses documents to the Central Records Division.
The processed contracts, info sheet, and the Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC), accompanied by a logsheet on processed seafarers and OECs issued for transmittal to the Philippine Tourism Authority.
For refund of travel tax.
No. The undertaking states that the position is available and that the seafarers whose travel documents are being submitted are not included in the watchlist.
They are to leave within Saturday, Sunday, and the morning of Monday, or within that particular holiday.