5/28/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [19] See id. at 66. [20] Id. at 65. [21] Id. at 66. [22] Section 10 of RA 8042 reads: Sec. 10. x x x. 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 provisions 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 (Emphasis supplied) [23] Entitled “AN ACT TO INSTITUTE THE POLICIES OF OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT AND ESTABLISH A HIGHER STANDARD OF PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE WELFARE OF MIGRANT WORKERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND OVERSEAS FILIPINOS IN DISTRESS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”; OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “MIGRANT WORKERS AND OVERSEAS FILIPINOS ACT OF 1995.” [24] CA rollo, p. 67. [25] Rollo, p. 259. [26] Id. at 256. [27] CA rollo, pp. 237-242. [28] Rollo, pp. 255-263. [29] Id. at 262. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/57652 7/9