Retrenched OFWs in Taiwan urged to seek re-employment

MANILA, Philippines - A local manpower industry leader on Tuesday urged Filipino workers in Taiwan who get retrenched to try to seek re-employment instead of returning home right away.

“It is better for OFWs who (were) retrenched to stay … and seek redeployment in Taiwan with other companies under the system where brokers mediate between the workers and the employers," said Jackson Gan, president of the Pilipino Manpower Agencies Accredited to Taiwan (Pilmat).

Gan explained that there is a redeployment mechanism in Taiwan for OFWs who have been laid off through the on-site offices maintained by recruitment agencies through their Taiwan brokers.

He faulted the group Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) for allegedly “agitating" displaced workers to return to the Philippines

“If the worker returns to the country, what can he expect here?" Gan argued.

He also scored the APPM for prompting the laid-off OFWs to file legal actions against local recruitment agencies for ticket refunds and the remaining portion of their unexpired contract.

According to Gan, there is already a mechanism approved by Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), Taiwan’s Council of Labor Affairs, and the agencies regarding returning the money of workers who claim to have paid huge placement fees.

In addition, he denied that the new contract to be implemented in January by the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) would be detrimental to Filipino contract workers.

“The prevailing global crisis is not the fault of the companies in Taiwan and this is covered under the contract duly approved by the POEA," he said.

According the Philippines' de facto embassy in Taiwan, the Manila Economic Cooperation Office (MECO), the number of affected Pinoys seeking assistance and processing their documents has reached 400 workers a day.

From an earlier report of more than 1,200 workers retrenched from 18 companies, MECO chief Antonio Basilio confirmed that the number of workers who have been relieved from 49 companies as of Dec. 12. - Kimberly Jane T. Tan GMANews.TV

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Vietnam condemns China's 'brutal behavior' in fisher attack ---- Agence France-Presse

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam's foreign ministry condemned on Wednesday China's "brutal behavior" during a violent attack on Vietnamese fishers in the disputed South China Sea. The 10 fishermen were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of fish and equipment on Sunday off the Paracel Islands -- an archipelago in the resource-rich waterway claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei. Vietnam "resolutely protests the brutal behavior of Chinese law enforcement forces against Vietnamese fishermen and fishing vessels operating in the Hoang Sa archipelago of Vietnam", foreign ministry spokesperson Vietnam Pham Thu Hang said in a statement, using the Vietnamese term for the Paracel Islands. "The above actions of Chinese law enforcement forces seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty" over the archipelago, the statement said. Four of the Vietnamese crew were taken to hospital on Monday
Read more

Africa roads are world’s deadliest despite few cars ---- AFP

ADDIS ABABA: Africa has the fewest roads and cars of any region, and yet the largest ratio of vehicle deaths, caused by the usual suspects — unsafe habits, speeding and drinking — but also poor infrastructure, scant rescuers and old cars. As everywhere, speed, alcohol and not wearing a seat belt or helmet are among the main causes of death and injury, say experts. But in Africa, where there are 620 traffic deaths every day, these problems are compounded by bad roads, outdated vehicles, minimal prosecutions and a shortage of emergency services. A recent World Health Organization report found that Africa surpassed the rest of the world, including Southeast Asia — which recorded the most road deaths — with a record ratio of 19.5 people killed per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021. Home to only around four percent of the world’s automobiles, Africa accounted for 19 percent of road deaths last year. “What is worrying is the upward trend in Africa,” said Jean Todt, a former head of the Internati
Read more

Russia captures town after 2 years of Ukrainian resistance --- Reuters

Russian forces now control 98.5% of Luhansk, 60% of Donetsk MOSCOW: Russian troops on Wednesday took charge of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a bastion that had resisted intense attacks since Russia launched its full-scale assault in 2022. The advance of Moscow's forces, which control just under a fifth of Ukraine, has underlined Russia's vast superiority in men and materiel as Ukraine pleads for more weapons from the Western allies that have been supporting it. Ukraine's eastern military command said it had ordered a pullback from the hilltop coal mining town to avoid encirclement by Russian troops and "preserve personnel and military equipment". The Russian defense ministry did not mention Vuhledar in its daily battlefield report. Russian Telegram channels, however, published video of troops waving the Russian tricolor flag over shattered buildings. The town, which had a population of over 14,000 before the war, has been devastated, with Soviet-era
Read more