THE Department of Labor and Immigration’s Hearing Office has reversed an earlier decision by the Division of Labor denying a non-resident’s transfer permit application.
Hearing Officer Jerry Cody, in an administrative order issued on July 1, said the permit application of the employee, Noel E. Ramores, should be processed as soon as possible.
Ramores formerly worked as a projection printer on a one-year permit that expired on Nov. 9, 2001.
Subsequently, he transferred to Rota Resort as a waiter.
On May 8, the Division of Labor denied Ramores’s transfer application based on the allegation that he misrepresented a prior employment at Bay Site Inn in the Philippines.
Ramores later testified that the business closed sometime in 1991 due to poor economic conditions.
Ramores produced an affidavit from a previous supervisor about the company’s closure.
The labor division said the dates of the supervisor’s affidavit were “ambiguous and did not entirely resolve the matter of Mr. Ramores’s prior work at the Inn.”
Nevertheless, Cody said, the division did not offer evidence to contradict the evidence presented by Ramores.
