Practice question
A recruiter arranges local industry-worker placements and collects applicant fees. It invokes the words fee-charging agency as affirmative permission, despite DO 216-20’s prohibition on charging workers in relation to recruitment and placement. What is the error?
- It confuses a definitional category with legal permission for the particular charge
- The category overrides every protective rule
- Every applicant signature authorizes prohibited fees
- A definition is always an exemption from regulation
- DO 216-20 concerns only foreign seafarers
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 13 and 29: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- DOLE Department Order No. 216-20, Articles II-III and VIII-IX, signed October 27, 2020, printed pages 5-8 and 14-17: https://batangmalaya.ph/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DOLE-Department-Order-No.-216-Series-of-2020-min-1-with-cover.pdf
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