Recruiters group chides Migrante for ‘misleading’ report on Taiwan OFWs

MANILA, Philippines — A group of local recruiters on Saturday accused Migrante International of misleading Filipino workers laid off in Taiwan and making “false statements" that are causing tensions between the Philippines and Taiwan.

The Pilipino Manpower Agencies Accredited to Taiwan (Pilmat) also scored Migrante of inflating the number of OFWs who had been laid off in Taiwan.

Migrante should have first verified and validated all reports coming from laid-off workers instead of immediately raising the red flag that OFWs in Taiwan are losing jobs, said Pilmat President Jackson Gan

He accused Migrante-Taiwan and Hope Workers Center of prodding laid-off OFWS to return to the Philippines instead of going through redeployment process of the Council of Labor Affairs that is part of protection benefits for OFWs in the wealthy state.

"There is a process whereby the laid-off worker can be absorbed in other factories and this is the job of on-site offices of Philippine agencies sending workers to Taiwan," Gan said.

Earlier, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), the Philippines de facto embassy in Taiwan, chided Migrante for making "false and irresponsible" claims that laid-off OFWs in Taiwan were not being compensated.

Raul C. Rabe, MECO corporate secretary was reported saying such "misleading" report on the situation of OFWs in Taiwan was grossly irresponsible and harmful to some 90,000 Filipino nationals under MECO's care.

"The claim of Migrante International that MECO had failed to adequately represent the interest of 1,263 OFWs working in Taiwan is totally false," Rabe said in the statement.

Rabe was referring to OFWs who used to work for 18 Taiwanese firms but had been retrenched from their company as a result of the global financial crisis.

Last week, MECO said Filipino workers were still being deployed to Taiwan as the island nation sets up a $15-billion package to perk up the economy. - GMANews.TV

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