Apolos R. Perez Jr. and Maria Ester C. Del Rosario are also permanently disqualified from employment in the commonwealth.
Labor gave them until June 20 to depart the CNMI.
Hearing Officer Herbert D. Soll said Perez and Del Rosario accepted payments for the processing of the entry permits of five guest workers even though there were no legitimate fulltime work under their permits.
During an investigation, Rogelio G. Balensosa testified to the hearing officer that Perez offered to solve his employment problem after the Alliance Corporation, where he worked, closed shop.
He said he paid $700 to Del Rosario after an employment contract was created to employ him as maintenance person by Janrome General Services, owned by Leticia R. Stoltenberg.
But Stoltenberg left the commonwealth on Jan. 26, 2006, according to Division of Immigration records.
The contract stated that Balensosa would receive $3.55 per hour as his salary.
Soll said Balensosa signed the contract not in the presence of a notary.
“There was no work and there was no job. The employment was a fiction,” Soll said, adding that Balensosa had worked about two days a week at Perez’s house and the rest of the time he sold fish.
“It is more likely that he used his status as an employee of Leticia Stoltenberg to remain in the commonwealth and he eked out a living by selling fish,” Soll said.
After the expiration of his work permit, Balensosa approached Perez again who told him to pay $900 for renewal.
The payment process began with an initial $400 payment to Del Rosario.
Upon making the last payment Del Rosario gave Balensosa a voucher to indicate that a renewal application had been filed.
Balensosa, however, didn’t receive his permit after months of waiting so he visited Labor, which discovered that the voucher was forged.
It was learned that Del Rosario gave Balensosa a voucher which carried a number of a voucher that had been issued to an employee who worked at the same location as Del Rosario.
Del Rosario was employed as an accountant at a marine recreation company.
“She forged the document to carry the name of Balensosa and he was unaware of this alteration,” Soll said.
He said there were four other foreign workers under Stoltenberg who have similar cases: Teodoro L. Casido, Adrialen DLS dela Cruz, Gong Yayan, and Juanito R. Oria.
Soll said the four would have performed the work it if had been provided. However, they should have known that the arrangement was created to give them status rather than to create a real employment relationship, he added.
The four were given a chance by Labor to find a new employment but if they fail to complete their transfer at the given period they will be repatriated.
