PDOS Advisory no 003

Series of 2009

All prospective overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and returning OFWs are reminded to be vigilant in accepting too good to be true employment schemes abroad.

Please be informed of cases wherein Filipinos, financed with travel opportunities abroad for pay, had been used as mules or carriers by drug syndicates and are languishing in jail in many parts of the world facing long sentences or death penalty.

Thus, OFWs are forewarned not to be involved in transnational yet illicit narcotic transactions so as to avoid legal complexities on-site which may involve imprisonment for long years or even death penalty sentences.

Carmelina F. Velasquez

Director IV, FIMO-PDOS

PDOS Advisory no 004

Series of 2009

All prospective overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and returning OFWs are reminded of cultural peculiarities in dealing with foreign nationals. Our penchant for overly expressing out friendliness/ closeness through physical contact or “touching” (pagkalabit o pagyakap-yakap o paghawak-hawak) may be wrongfully interpreted as sexual harassment, sexual advance or uncalled-for friendliness.

This advisory is being issued to prevent further repetition of such incident, which ended up with a female Filipino nurse in London, England being hailed to court but was fortunately proven innocent of the charge of sexual harassment,

Carmelina F. Velasquez

Director IV, FIMO-PDOS