x x x                           (3) Shall assume joint and solidary liability with the         employer for all claims and liabilities which may arise in connection with the   implementation of the contract; including but not limited to payment of wages,          death and disability compensation and repatriation.                         Accordingly, despite the execution of the Affidavits of Assumption of Responsibility by other manning agencies, the petitioner Skippers United Pacific Inc. cannot exempt itself from all the claims and liabilities arising from the implementation of the contract executed between the said petitioner and the respondents.  It is very clear from the above-cited provisions of the Rules and Regulations of the POEA that the manning agency shall assume joint and solidary liability with the employer.  Joint and solidary liability is meant to assure aggrieved workers of immediate and sufficient payment of what is due them. [48]   The reason for this ruling was given by this Court in Catan v. National Labor Relations Commission,[49] which is reproduced in part below:   This must be so, because the obligations covenanted in the recruitment  [manning] agreement entered into by and between the local agent and its foreign principal are not coterminus with the term of such agreement so that if either or both of the parties decide to end the agreement, the responsibilities of such parties towards the contracted employees under the agreement do not at all end, but the same extends up to and            until the expiration of the employment contracts of the employees recruited and employed pursuant to the said recruitment agreement.  Otherwise, this will render nugatory the very purpose for which the law governing the employment of workers for foreign jobs abroad was enacted.                 Also, according to Section 10, paragraph 2 of Republic Act No. 8042,[50] the agency which deployed the employees whose employment contract were adjudged illegally terminated, shall be jointly and solidarily liable with the principal for the money claims awarded to the aforesaid employees.[51]  Therefore, petitioner Skippers Pacific United, Inc. as the manning agency which hired the respondents is jointly and solidarily liable with its principal and co-petitioner J.P. Samartzsis Maritime Enterprises Co., S.A., for the money claims of the respondents.  The Affidavits of Assumption of Responsibility, though valid as between petitioner Skippers United Pacific Inc. and the other two manning agencies, are not enforceable as against the respondents because the latter were not