'Rise in OFW deployment due to repro job orders'
MANILA, Philippines - The reported rise in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) is clearly due to the “reprocessing" of job orders, a recruitment industry consultant said.
According to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), a total of 1,236,013 Filipino workers were deployed in 2008 – a 14.7 percent increase from the year before.
Of the number, 376,973 were land-based new hires – a 20 percent increase from the 313,360 new hires deployed in 2007. [See: POEA clarifies rise in OFW deployment for 2008]
Recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani, however, clarified that the rise in OFW deployment wasn’t actually due to an increase of job orders for new hires.
“The recruitment industry believes that the large increase of deployed workers… is due to the proliferation of ‘repro job orders’ being used by licensed agencies in sending domestic helpers to Middle East," he told GMANews.TV.
“Reprocessing," as previously defined by recruiters, means using particular job orders to recruit workers into jobs different from the work that they would be given at the jobsite.
This, Geslani said, is being used by many licensed agencies in sending domestic helpers to Middle East destinations under the guise of female categories like cleaners, janitress, chambermaids, beauticians and the like.
“Some licensed agencies are using ‘repro job orders’ from other agencies who have an abundance of female categories which may be used to deploy OFW maids violating POEA rules of contract substitution and falsified documents," he said.
The recruitment consultant asked the POEA to make such agencies accountable.
“The POEA should crack down on those agencies which have been found to be collaborating with illegal recruitment syndicates and recalcitrant agencies participating in ‘repro job orders,’" he said.
Geslani said the proliferation of these violating agencies stemmed from the absence of POEA desks at airports where e-receipts and other documents can be properly validated. - GMANews.TV
According to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), a total of 1,236,013 Filipino workers were deployed in 2008 – a 14.7 percent increase from the year before.
Of the number, 376,973 were land-based new hires – a 20 percent increase from the 313,360 new hires deployed in 2007. [See: POEA clarifies rise in OFW deployment for 2008]
Recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani, however, clarified that the rise in OFW deployment wasn’t actually due to an increase of job orders for new hires.
“The recruitment industry believes that the large increase of deployed workers… is due to the proliferation of ‘repro job orders’ being used by licensed agencies in sending domestic helpers to Middle East," he told GMANews.TV.
“Reprocessing," as previously defined by recruiters, means using particular job orders to recruit workers into jobs different from the work that they would be given at the jobsite.
This, Geslani said, is being used by many licensed agencies in sending domestic helpers to Middle East destinations under the guise of female categories like cleaners, janitress, chambermaids, beauticians and the like.
“Some licensed agencies are using ‘repro job orders’ from other agencies who have an abundance of female categories which may be used to deploy OFW maids violating POEA rules of contract substitution and falsified documents," he said.
The recruitment consultant asked the POEA to make such agencies accountable.
“The POEA should crack down on those agencies which have been found to be collaborating with illegal recruitment syndicates and recalcitrant agencies participating in ‘repro job orders,’" he said.
Geslani said the proliferation of these violating agencies stemmed from the absence of POEA desks at airports where e-receipts and other documents can be properly validated. - GMANews.TV
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