POEA
Proper noun
Meaning
POEA
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(Philippines) Initialism of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
Examples
Ang sakop lang nung ban ay yung mga bagong mga kontrata na ipinasok matapos po mag-issue ng ban ang POEA (Those who have perfected contracts are allowed to leave.
Health care workers bearing employment certificates (OEC) from the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) have been given permission by the government to leave the country this week.
Data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) shows that the number of OFWs going to Canada grew by 13.3 percent, or a total of 4, 006 in 2003 from 3,532 the previous year.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) pegs the OFWs deployed to Lebanon at only 14,970 while the recruiters’ group Philippine Association of Mediterranean Agencies Deploying Labours, Inc. (PAMADEL) has a higher count of 26,146.
The exemption from the travel ban also applies to Filipino workers flying to Hong Kong and Macau for the first time provided they sign the declaration form available at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
During the past six years, the Philippines deployed a total of 499,495 newly hired HSWs worldwide, according to POEA records.