Article 17Overseas Employment Development Board.

Overseas Employment Development Board.

An Overseas Employment Development Board is hereby created to undertake, in cooperation with relevant entities and agencies, a systematic program for overseas employment of Filipino workers in excess of domestic needs and to protect their rights to fair and equitable employment practices. It shall have the power and duty:

To promote the overseas employment of Filipino workers through a comprehensive market promotion and development program;

To secure the best possible terms and conditions of employment of Filipino contract workers on a government-to-government basis and to ensure compliance therewith;

To recruit and place workers for overseas employment on a government-to-government arrangement and in such other sectors as policy may dictate; and

To act as secretariat for the Board of Trustees of the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers.