Seek reemployment in Korea, recruiter tells OFWs
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
“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
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