AN employer who abandoned an alien worker and failed to produce documents required by the Department of Labor and Immigration has been permanently barred from hiring foreign workers.
Hearing Officer Vicente C. Seman said Frank P. Sablan, who owns Christopher Enterprises, violated the Non-Resident Workers Act when he failed to comply with the notice of appearance for investigations and demand for production of documents pertaining to the case of Carina C. Pagtalunan.
According to labor documents, Pagtalunan was hired by Sablan as administrative assistant in 1996. A year later, the employer moved to Guam unknown to the employee.
“Such relocation and detachment constitutes fleeing from the jurisdiction of the commonwealth and as a result, the respondent abandoned the complainant,” Seman said.
In 1997, Pagtalunan filed a complaint against her employer.
Last year, the Division of Labor served Sablan with a notice of appearance for investigation and demanded the production of certain documents. Sablan failed to comply.
