HB 4422
House·20th Congress·Filed Sep 8, 2025
An Act Redefining the Crime of Illegal Recruitment Committed by a Syndicate, Amending for the Purpose Presidential Decree No. 442, Otherwise Known as the Labor Code of the Philippines, as Amended, and Republic Act No. 8042, Otherwise Known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995, as Amended
In plain language
The bill lowers the number of people needed to be called a “syndicate” for illegal recruitment from three to two, treats such recruitment as economic sabotage, and expands the definition of illegal recruitment to include any unlicensed recruiter who offers jobs abroad to two or more people for a fee.
Labor and EmploymentPublic Order and SafetyHuman Rights
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