Text of the provision
Art. 17. Overseas Employment Development Board. An Overseas Employment Development Board 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: To promote the overseas employment of Filipino workers through a comprehensive market promotion and development program; 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; To recruit and place workers for overseas employment on a government-to-government arrangement and in such other sectors as policy may dictate; and To act as secretariat for the Board of Trustees of the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers.
Labor Code of the Philippines, Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
This creates a board to run a systematic overseas employment program for Filipino workers beyond domestic needs and to protect their right to fair and equitable employment practices. Its duties include market promotion, securing the best possible terms on a government-to-government basis, recruiting and placing workers under such arrangements, and acting as secretariat for the welfare and training fund for overseas workers.
Related provisions
- Article 16 — Recruitment Limited To Public Offices.
- Article 18 — Ban On Direct Hiring.
A note on article numbers. The articles of the Labor Code have been administratively renumbered, so the same provision is often cited under a different number. Supreme Court decisions write both, in the form “Article 297 [282]” — the new number first, the original in brackets. The text on this page is published under its original number, which is the numbering both source texts use. When citing, check which numbering your source follows.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.