POEA suspends three recruitment firms
The government has suspended three recruitment firms for allegedly illegally deploying Filipino workers to Jordan through Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The suspension order was issued against Empleos Incorporated, Nahed International Manpower Services, and Ridzkey Human Resources International Services, according to Hans Leo Cacdac, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
Cacdac said the three firms were suspended since there are reasonable grounds to believe that their continued operation will lead to further violation of POEA rules and regulations, and exploitation of applicants for overseas jobs.
The POEA chief added the three companies used the same scheme of having the documents of the OFWs processed at the POEA for work in the UAE, but upon arrival in Dubai, the workers are transferred to planes bound for Jordan.
“The scheme employed by the respondents is a prima facie case of trafficking-in-persons considering the fact that the workers were officially processed for UAE but they were deployed instead to employers in Jordan that are not accredited or registered with the POEA,” Cacdac said Monday.
The POEA motu propio filed administrative complaints against recruitment firms after receiving memos from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Jordan requesting assistance for immediate repatriation of OFWs deployed by the agencies.
He said the recruitment agencies also failed to immediately repatriate the affected workers even with persistent requests for repatriation from the POEA and the workers themselves.
The workers are currently staying at the Filipino Workers Resource Center in Amman after they ran away from their respective employers.
The names of the respondents were also included in the POEA list of agencies temporarily disqualified to recruit and deploy Filipino overseas workers pending investigation of the cases filed against them. — KBK, GMA News
The suspension order was issued against Empleos Incorporated, Nahed International Manpower Services, and Ridzkey Human Resources International Services, according to Hans Leo Cacdac, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
Cacdac said the three firms were suspended since there are reasonable grounds to believe that their continued operation will lead to further violation of POEA rules and regulations, and exploitation of applicants for overseas jobs.
The POEA chief added the three companies used the same scheme of having the documents of the OFWs processed at the POEA for work in the UAE, but upon arrival in Dubai, the workers are transferred to planes bound for Jordan.
“The scheme employed by the respondents is a prima facie case of trafficking-in-persons considering the fact that the workers were officially processed for UAE but they were deployed instead to employers in Jordan that are not accredited or registered with the POEA,” Cacdac said Monday.
The POEA motu propio filed administrative complaints against recruitment firms after receiving memos from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Jordan requesting assistance for immediate repatriation of OFWs deployed by the agencies.
He said the recruitment agencies also failed to immediately repatriate the affected workers even with persistent requests for repatriation from the POEA and the workers themselves.
The workers are currently staying at the Filipino Workers Resource Center in Amman after they ran away from their respective employers.
The names of the respondents were also included in the POEA list of agencies temporarily disqualified to recruit and deploy Filipino overseas workers pending investigation of the cases filed against them. — KBK, GMA News
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