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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Faceless P100 Bill Confirmed By BSP, Investigation Is Underway

Monday, December 18, 2017

Are OFW Kasambahays Asked By Their Agencies With 2-Month Salary Deduction?

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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.

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.

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.

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. 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. Advertisement 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. 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 Read More: ©2017 THOUGHTSKOTO

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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Friday, September 15, 2017

Are You Leaving The Country For Work As Direct Hired? You Might Face A Big Problem

Very few direct hires will be allowed to work abroad as the POEA tightens the rules for them to get Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC).

The government has very clear rules on direct hires. It is only allowed under certain circumstances to ensure the safety of deployed OFWs worldwide. For the POEA to do it, every OFWs should be deployed abroad via legal recruitment agencies duly authorized and licensed by the POEA. The OEC serves as OWWA membership which is the basis of being legally deployed abroad and the name of the OFW is recorded on the POEA and OWWA database. Should anything happened to the deployed OFW, the government has records of the OFWs, their name, job description, country of deployment and even their employers or company. For the direct hires or illegally working OFWs who did not secure an OEC, things will be difficult for the POEA and OWWA to locate and rescue them should any untoward incidents happen.
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In an interview, Labor Secretary and POEA GB chair Silvestre Bello III said he supports the proposal since it would ensure the welfare of direct hires.

Most OFWs, especially the skilled and professional workers, resort to direct hiring for higher salary.
To them, they can evade the high placement fees and other processing fees charged by the recruitment agencies. Being directly hired by foreign employers, they are free from spending a big chunk of their savings. The only downside is that, they are not recorded at the POEA and OWWA, putting them at great risk as compared to the agency-hired OFWs.
The Manila Times Columnist Atty. Dodo Dulay said in his column that being a direct-hire, they only rely on the honesty, integrity and reputation of their employers with regards to honoring the terms of their contract. This kind of agreement exposes them to greater risk.

Direct hires or name hires are allowed under POEA regulations, applicants can only be exempted from the ban on direct hires if they will work for the following employers:

Members of the diplomatic corps;
International organizations;
Heads of state and government officials with a rank of at least deputy minister;
Employers allowed by the Labor secretary through his or her discretion.

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POEA also set the requirements to be accomplished by direct or name-hires in order to be allowed to work abroad.
Unless these requirements will be completed, direct hired professionals, skilled, low-skilled and household workers will be impossible to be deployed overseas.

Just recently, a new rule has been released that for the direct hires to secure OECs, they need to be connected to a local recruitment agencies. This was confirmed by local hires who are mostly going to European countries. The irony is that, the agencies also charge fees for processing similar to the placement fees they are collecting from agency-hired OFWS.

Unfortunately, the OFWs are not aware of the new system.
Most of them already have their working visas, some of them has their plane tickets but they cannot leave the country because of the regulations from DOLE regarding direct-hires.

Now, if you are not bound to work for your relative abroad you are most likely to be denied of the OEC. However, the official statement regarding this rule is not yet released to the public by DOLE.

Bello admitted he does not approve of his discretionary power for direct hires since most applicants, who avail of it end up working for their relatives abroad.

“I do not want to encourage this because working for their relatives will guarantee they will not be abused,” Bello said.

Bello issued the statement amid the reported increase in the number of aspiring OFWs, whose processing in his office has been delayed.

Sources: Manila Bulletin, POEA, The ManilaTimes

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