Text of the provision
Art. 26. Travel agencies prohibited to recruit. Travel agencies and sales agencies of airline companies are prohibited from engaging in the business of recruitment and placement of workers for overseas employment whether for profit or not.
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
Travel agencies and airline sales agencies are barred from the business of recruiting and placing workers for overseas employment — and the ban applies whether or not they do it for profit.
Questions about this provision
Related provisions
- Article 25 — Private Sector May Recruit.
- Article 27 — Filipino Ownership Requirement.
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.
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