[1]  Rollo, pp. 24-35; penned by Associate Justice Teresita Dy-Liacco Flores with Associate Justices Rodrigo F. Lim, Jr. and Myrna Dimaranan-Vidal concurring.  [2]  Id. at 46-48. [3]  Id. at 39-44. [4]  Id. at 36-38. [5]  Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995. [6]  Rollo, p. 44. [7]  Id. at 48. [8]  Id. at 34-35. [9]  See Sec. 6(i), R.A. No. 8042. [10]  312 Phil. 88 (1995). [11]  Id. at 94-95. [12]  Republic Act No. 8042 (1995), Sec. 10: Money Claims xxxx The liability of the principal/employer and the recruitment/placement agency for any and all claims under this section shall be joint and several.  This provision shall be incorporated in the contract for overseas employment and shall be a condition precedent for its approval.  The performance bond to be filed by the recruitment/placement agency, as provided by law, shall be answerable for all money claims or damages that may be awarded to the workers.  If the recruitment/placement agency is a juridical being, the corporate officers and directors and partners as the case may be, shall themselves be jointly and solidarily liable with the corporation or partnership for the aforesaid claims and damages.  Such liabilities shall continue during the entire period or duration of the employment contract and shall not be affected by any substitution, amendment or modification made locally or in a foreign country of the said contract x x x x. [13]  Juco v. Heirs of Tomas Siy Chung Fu, G.R. No. 150233, February 16, 2005, 451 SCRA 464, 471-472. [14]  Chavez v. Hon. Bonto-Perez, supra note 10 at 97. [15]  Rasonable v. National Labor Relations Commission, 324 Phil. 191, 195-196 (1996). [16]  Rollo, p. 35.