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In spite of the growing incidents of abuse and maltreatment among household workers particularly in the middle eastern countries, HSW deployment went up to 70 percent in 2016 translated to 81,000 more from the 2015 turnout.
The Household Service Workers (HSW) deployment continue to rise in the Middle East and Hong Kong despite of the economy slowdown especially in the Middle East where deployment of HSWs has exceeded the 200,000 level in 2016 with 275,093 total deployed domestic workers in various parts of the world.
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The figure which represents an increase of 70% over the 2015 figures of 194,973 deployed in 2015 while in 2016 275,073 was the number sourced from the POEA.
The demand for hiring domestic workers remains very strong in the seven countries in the Middle East being at the top ten destinations.
Saudi Arabia at the top with 107,298 followed by Kuwait with 57,726. Qatar with 27,877 while in Hong Kong a noticeable surge was observed which has 41,925 in 2016 compared to 27, 148 or an increase of 65 percent leading to the suspicion that HK agencies are trafficking some of the maids to China.
The demand for hiring domestic workers remains very strong in the seven countries in the Middle East being at the top ten destinations.
Saudi Arabia at the top with 107,298 followed by Kuwait with 57,726. Qatar with 27,877 while in Hong Kong a noticeable surge was observed which has 41,925 in 2016 compared to 27, 148 or an increase of 65 percent leading to the suspicion that HK agencies are trafficking some of the maids to China.
Meanwhile total deployment of domestic workers from 1992 up to 2016 has 2,352,097 based on the data gathered by LBS Recruitment solutions in a study of HSW deployment.
Lito Soriano, recruitment expert and LBS Recruitment Solution Inc. president said that the demand for HSWs in KSA only started to rise after 2011.
Lito Soriano, recruitment expert and LBS Recruitment Solution Inc. president said that the demand for HSWs in KSA only started to rise after 2011.
Hiring of filipino domestic workers surge from just 2,098 in 2012, the number of new Filipino HSWs in KSA shoots up to 42,440 in 2013.
Another recruitment and migration expert Emmanuel Geslani said that he received reports from many local agencies deploying Household Service Workers about foreign owned agencies which acquire many applicants in Mindanao using illegal agents who control many Muslim applicants and are paid $ 500 USD per head by these recruitment agencies who are allegedly controlled by
Arabs.
Reliable source revealed that one agency is buying HSW applicants with passports at the rate of P 20,000-30,000 each bagging many of the available mostly Muslim women. In accordance with this, Geslani urged DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III to order Undersecretary and POEA OIC Bernard Olalia to investigate the proliferation of local agencies with foreign ownership but mostly controlled by the foreign backers who are mostly Middle East personalities and some who are married to Filipinas to gain permanent residency in order to conduct their business.
Some sources also talks about some recruitment agencies collecting 2 months of the HSWs equivalent salaries in order to be deployed abroad. Unverified reports from different sources claiming about the said activity came mostly from HSW applicants.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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