Article 17Overseas Employment Development Board

An Overseas Employment Development Board (7) Formulate employment programs designed to benefit disadvantaged groups and communities; and (8) Perform other functions as may be provided by law. Now renumbered as Art. 229 (Appeal). Paragraph (b) of Art. 15 was superseded by E.O.

No. 797 (1982), Sec. 4 of which created the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) which is vested with "original and exclusive jurisdiction over all cases, including money claims, involving employer-employee relations arising out of or by virtue of any law or contract involving Filipino workers for overseas employment, including seamen." P.D. No.

1177, "Revising the Budget Process in Order to Institutionalize the Budgetary Innovations of the New Society". The functions of the Overseas Employment Development Board (OEDB) are now being undertaken by the POEA. These, as provided for in Sec. 3 of EO No.

247, "Reorganizing the POEA and for Other Purposes," shall refer to the POEA's powers and functions to: (a) Regulate private sector participation in the recruitment and overseas placement of workers by setting up a licensing and registration system; (b) Formulate and Implement, in coordination with appropriate entities concerned, when necessary, a system for promoting and ULES is hereby created to undertake, in cooperation with relevant entities and agencies, a systematic program for overseas employment of Filipino workers in excess of domestic needs and to protect their rights to fair and equitable employment practices. It shall have the power and duty: 1. To promote the overseas employment of Filipino workers through a comprehensive market promotion and development program; 2.

To secure the best possible terms and conditions of employment of Filipino contract workers on a government-to-government basis and to ensure compliance therewith; 3. To recruit and place workers for overseas employment on a government-to-government arrangement and in such other sectors as policy may dictate; and 4. To act as secretariat for the Board of Trustees of the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers.