The Philippine Government Authorities must imposed the Policy to the Recruitment Agencies

When posting a job vacancy in any job sites online, tele-marketing the job, or sending it via email to the applicants; recruitment agencies must have to show the following to be fair to the OFW applicants in spending their money for a certain job interview;


Name of the Employer: _______________________________

Address or Country of the employer: ___________________

Job Position available: _______________________________

The Salary rate: ____________________________________

Other Benefits: ____________________________________


Others: ___________________________________________


Most Recruitment Agencies are doing these unreasonable practices to their OFW Applicants;
1. They will hide the real salary rate offered by the employer to be sure that the applicant will come for the interview.

This is unfair because of the following;
A. The applicant would force to spend their hard-earned and saved money to Print a resume/CV and other documents as a preliminary requirement of the interview
a. Printing of Resume will cost P 5.00 to P10.00 per ( for 3 to 5 pages depending on its content/ a job detailed resume)
b. Photo copying of employment certificates, transcript of records, Passport, NBI, and other documents
c. Transportation expense from their province to Manila for Interview
d. Every interview even will cost much to the applicants and when the interview ends, his/her desired salary is not much to the job he is applying and spending for.
B. Many applicants are none Manila based. Some of them are from Mindanao and Visayas areas.
C. Most applicants will act only if they agreed with the posted salary offer

2. Most recruitment agencies especially in the OFW bargain place in Mabini, Ermita Manila are so greed for commissions and they will get all applicants original important documents like passport and NBI and refused to return it back to them after the applicant decided to back-out after knowing the bargain salaries.
A. Recruitment agencies did it to take control to the applicants possession and to make sure that the applicant could not make any application to other good agencies
B. This might be unlawful for the agencies to take control to somebody’s confidential information and personal identification like passport

3. Some Agencies will require an immediate GAMCA medical requirement to the applicants even though there is no employer yet.

A. This system will make the applicant spend money for unsure employment opportunities. If the medical validity will expired, the applicant will spend again for another Phase 1 and 2 amounting to Php 3,000.00 (Three Thousand Philippine Peso) or more

Those above issue must be given review and action by the Government Authorities Concerned this matter.

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ILO warns of rise in human trafficking due to financial crisis

MANILA, Philippines – Many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) opt to sneak out of the country to work abroad but sadly end up as sex slaves, the International Labor Organization (ILO) warned yesterday.
ILO executive director Linda Wirth said many people worldwide, including Filipinos, may likely accept risky and questionable offers of employment as a result of the prevailing global financial crisis.

Although the ILO has no data to prove the surge in the number of human trafficking victims, Wirth said economic pressure is a major factor that increased illegal activities.
She said illegally deployed workers and human trafficking victims are more prone to exploitation and more likely to suffer sexual abuse than documented workers.

“When they go to their destinations, they find themselves locked up with passport taken away, given no salary, made to work long hours seven days a week. They are in the situation of labor exploitation,” Wirth said.
She said there is nothing more difficult than working in a sex den, forced into prostitution or suffering sexual abuse in the confines of private homes.
“Sometimes it’s a bit difficult to untangle the labor and the sexual exploitation,” she said.
She voiced concern that as the global financial crisis hits more communities “there will be more temptation to take risky offers.”
“We are worried that there could be an increase in human trafficking,” she explained.
The Philippines is not as badly hit by the economic crisis as other countries, but the number of people affected by the financial slump may increase with the crisis expected to continue until 2010.

“Fifty thousand more reportedly lost their jobs in the Philippines, but we have to think of the subsidiary workers, the informal economy, the tricycle drivers, women who make the food for the workers. They are also falling out and yet not counted in the official statistics,” Wirth pointed out.
Many Filipino migrant workers may be forced to stay in other countries to work rather than come home.

Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperanza Cabral said there is no solid evidence to prove the increase in illegal recruitment and human trafficking because of the economic crisis.
However, she admitted that the DSWD receives reports of human trafficking through the airports, particularly at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark, Pampanga.
She also reported that in Zamboanga, 500 people come by boat from Malaysia every week and many of them enter the country illegally and are victims of trafficking. A majority of the victims are women below 18 years old.

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Hinihinalang illegal recruiter na kumubra ng P1.5M sa mga biktima nadakip

Dinakip ng mga tauhan ng National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) ang isang babae na nanloko umano sa 11 aplikante na nakunan ng P1.5 milyon para magtrabaho sa Canada. Nadakip sa inilatag na entrapment operation ng NBI si Nancy Leono, may-ari ng Lacorte Kimpura Travel Agency sa Makati, at naninirahan sa Sepulcro St., PNR Mansion sa Paco, Manila.

Ayon kay Senior Agent Jose Theron Valencia, si Leono ay hinuli sa kanyang bahay ng mga tauhan ng NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division (Ahtrad) noong Miyerkules. Nahaharap si Leono sa kasong panloloko at paglabag sa Republic Act 8042 o Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.

Pinaghahanap naman ng NBI ang nakatakas na tauhan ni Leono na si Melba Lamug, residente sa Prudencio St., Sampaloc, Maynila. Sinabi ni Valencia na nag-alok umano ng trabaho si Leono sa mga biktima para magtrabaho sa Canada bilang mga nurses, caregivers at hotel receptionists. Kabilang umano sa mga nagreklamo ay sina;

1. Cherizza Medrano
2. Cherilyn Medrano
3. Ailyn Ramos
4. Rizza Rivera
(Pawang mga taga-Zamboanga City)

5. Ruzel dela Cruz
6. Kurt Buebos
7. Myrna Vergara
8. Christmas Alzona
(Pawang taga- Biňan, Laguna)

9. Maria Lilibeth Villanueva
10. Jennette Amante
(Pawang taga-Pembo, Makati City)

11. Armin Basuel ng Naic, Cavite.

Humingi umano ang mga akusado ng P1,523,950 sa mga biktima bilang processing at placements fees. Ngunit kahit naibigay na ang pera, hindi pa rin nakakaalis ng Pilipinas ang mga biktima. Napag-alaman naman ng NBI sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration na hindi rehistrado sa pamahalaan ang kumpanya at ang mga suspek para mangalap ng aplikante na nais magtrabaho sa ibang bansa. - GMANews.TV


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