Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act
Section 19. Personnel. Each Migrant Workers and Other Overseas Filipinos Resource Center shall be staffed by Foreign Service personnel, a Labor Attaché and other service attachés or officers who represent Philippine government agencies abroad.
The following personnel may be assigned to the Center:
a. Psychologists, Social Workers, and a Shari'a or Human Rights Lawyer, in highly problematic countries as categorized by the DFA and DOLE and where there is a concentration of Filipino migrant workers;
b. Individual volunteers and representatives from bona fide non-government organizations from the receiving countries, if available and necessary as determined by the Labor Attaché in consultation with the Chief of Mission;
c. Public Relations Officer or Case Officer conversant, orally and in writing, with the local language, laws, customs and practices; and/or
d. Legal Officers (POEA/NLRC/DOLE) and such other professionals deemed necessary by the Secretary of Labor and Employment.