Under POEA Rules and Regulations, agencies risk licence cancellation for subverting fee policies and other illegal operations. However, data provided by POEA to Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA) in 2016 on the issuance of suspension and cancellation orders for rules noncompliance revealed that repeat offenses are common among “top offender” agencies. Multiple agencies received cancellation and suspension orders over consecutive years, indicating that disciplinary action did not stop agencies from re-offending or offending in new ways.5 This preliminary data suggests that recidivism is systemic, rather than exceptional. Statistics on women migrant workers Section 20 of RA8042 or the Magna Carta for Migrant Workers provides for the Establishment of a Shared Government Information System on Migration (SGISM) that will include, but not limited to, the following information: (a) Masterlists of departing/arriving Filipinos; (b) Inventory of pending legal cases involving Filipino migrant workers and other Filipino nationals, including those serving prison terms; Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). n.d. “Dataset: Top Recruitment agencies with most number of cases for the past 3 years (2012-2014).” Provided to CMA in January 2016 . 5

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