The Department of Foreign Affairs has warned Filipinos against job offers for domestic helpers and tutors in China, saying these employment categories are not yet open to workers from the Philippines.
“It is still irregular for Filipinos to work as household service workers and private tutors in mainland China,” a DFA statement on Saturday said.
For the first half of 2019, the Philippine Consulate General in Xiamen and other Foreign Service posts in China recorded several cases of overstaying and/or irregular employment of Filipinos as maids or tutors.
Most of these cases were of Filipinos illegally crossing to China to work as domestic helpers, it said.
The DFA said Filipinos in China should follow Chinese immigration rules and avoid staying beyond what is allowed in their visas.
Those who want to work abroad must first check the veracity of job offers with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), it said.
