The POEA's office is located at EDSA corner Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong, Philippines.

[3] The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration was established in 1982 through Executive Order No.

The goal of the agency's establishment was to promote and monitor the overseas employment of Filipino workers.

Among other changes, the paragraph defining the term migrant worker was amended to read, "'Overseas Filipino worker' refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a state of which he or she is not a citizen or on board a vessel navigating the foreign seas other than a government ship used for military or non-commercial purposes or on an installation located offshore or on the high seas; to be used interchangeably with migrant worker.

11641 creating the Department of Migrant Workers, elevating POEA as an executive department[8] and absorbing the seven offices of the Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Foreign Affairs namely Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers' Affairs (OUMWA) of the DFA, Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO), International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB), National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) and the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) of the DOLE.

Hears and arbitrates complaints and cases filed against recruitment and manning agencies, foreign principals and employers, and overseas workers for reported violation of POEA rules and regulations, except for money claims 3.

Monitors overseas job advertisements on print, broadcast and television 6.

Imposes disciplinary actions on erring employers and workers and seafarers 1.

Quality Management System On November 1, 2011, the POEA Governing Board (GB) published GB Resolution No.7, which specifies a list of 41 countries where OFWs cannot be deployed for non-compliance with the guarantees required under R.A. 10022.

As of November 2011[update] the POEA lists 125 countries as being compliant with the guarantees required under R.A.

[9] The process of obtaining a POEA exit clearances has been described in the Philippine press as a "nightmare".

[10] In a Philippine Daily Inquirer piece dated July 14, 2011, Rigoberto Tiglao, Philippine ambassador to Greece and Cyprus, questioned the POEA exit clearances, opining that they may be unconstitutional.