POEA suspends 2 recruitment firms for deceiving OFWs on household work

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has preventively suspended two recruitment firms for alleged misrepresentation in deploying household service workers to the United Arab Emirates.
 
In a news advisory, POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac ordered the preventive suspension of Trustworthy International Manpower Corp. and Filscandia Manpower Recruitment Services Inc.
 
At the same time, Cacdac ordered the preventive suspension of the foreign principals and employers of Filscandia and Trustworthy.
 
"With the orders of preventive suspension, the said recruitment agencies and foreign employers cannot engage in the recruitment and placement of OFWs until further orders from the POEA," the POEA said.
 
Cacdac said the case against the two firms stemmed from "the misrepresentation cases of four distressed HSWs staying at the Migrant Workers and Filipino Resource Center."
 
The news advisorys said that investigation showed three complainants against Trustworthy International claimed they left the country using a visa for a foot spa technician with a monthly salary of Dh1,600.
 
But upon arrival, they were made to work as domestic workers, with heavy work loads and a lower salary of Dh1,100. They have run away from their employers.
 
Meanwhile, a fourth complainant against Filscandia claimed she was recruited and deployed as security guard at a supermarket in Dubai, with a monthly salary of Dh2,000.
 
Instead, she was sent to a household to work as babysitter with a Dh900 salary.
 
Re-processing scheme
 
Cacdac said both agencies used the reprocessing scheme, where they submitted documents to the POEA for processing for a different position, and sending the OFW to work as an HSW.
 
This aimed to circumvent the rules on the recruitment and deployment of HSWs, he said. — Joel Locsin/RSJ, GMA News

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