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Practice question: Public Employment Offices

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A returning Filipino migrant worker seeks reintegration assistance from a city PESO. The PESO says its functions exclude all returning migrant workers because it is a local office. Is that position correct?
  1. Yes, all migrant-worker services are excluded
  2. No, reintegration assistance to returning Filipino migrant workers is an express PESO function
  3. Yes, unless the worker already has a new overseas contract
  4. No, because the PESO must automatically pay every returning worker a fixed benefit
  5. Yes, unless a private recruiter requests the service

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2015/ra_10691_2015.html — RA 10691, sections 1–5, amending RA 8759 sections 3, 5–7, and 9.

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