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[24] http://www/poea.gov.ph/cgi-bin/agSearch.asp (typing "Principalia" as the agency
name), last visited on August 25, 2015.
[25] Stradcom Corporation v. Laqui, G.R. No. 172712, March 21, 2012, 668 SCRA 652,
661.
[26] G.R. No. 193415, April 18, 2012, 670 SCRA 252, 262-263.
[27] Caneland Sugar Corporation v. Hon. Alon, 559 Phil. 462, 467 (2007), citing Acop v.
Guingona, Jr., 433 Phil. 62, 67-68 (2002).
[28] Entitled "Reorganizing the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and For
Other Purposes,"
Section 3(d) states: In the pursuit of its mandate, the Administration shall have the
following powers and functions:
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(d) Exercise original and exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide all claims arising out
of an employer-employee relationship or by virtue of any law or contract involving
Filipino workers for overseas employment including the disciplinary cases; and all preemployment cases which are administrative in character involving or arising out of
violation or requirement laws, rules and regulations including money claims arising
therefrom, or violation of the conditions for issuance of license or authority to recruit
workers.
[29] Section 1. Jurisdiction. The Administration shall exercise original and exclusive
jurisdiction to hear and decide all cases which are administrative in character, involving
or arising out of violations of recruitment rules and regulations including refund of fees
collected from workers and violation of the conditions for issuance of license to recruit
workers.
[30] Section 1. Jurisdiction. The Secretary of Labor and Employment shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to act on appeals/petitions for review of recruitment violation
cases and other related cases decided by the Administration.
[31] Bank of the Philippine Islands v. Hong, 682 Phil. 66,73 (2012).
[32] Sec. 19. Jurisdiction in civil cases. Regional Trial Courts shall exercise exclusive
original jurisdiction:
(1) In all civil actions in which the subject of the litigations is incapable of pecuniary
estimation;
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