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Who are disqualified from engaging in the business of recruitment and placement of workers for overseas employment?

Recruitment and placement refers to any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring, or procuring workers, and includes referrals, contract services, promising or advertising for employment, locally or abroad, whether for profit or not: Provided, That any person or entity which, in any manner, offers or promises for a fee employment to two or more persons shall be deemed engaged in recruitment and placement.

What is the rationale behind 13th month pay?

By virtue of Presidential Decree No. 851, all employers were required to pay all their employees a 13th-month pay not later than December 24 of every year (subject to certain exceptions) for it is necessary to further protect the level of real wages from the ravage of worldwide inflation and that the Christmas season is an opportune time for society to show its concern for the plight of the working masses so they may properly celebrate Christmas and New Year.