Recruiters suspend deployment of maids to Singapore over placement fees MANILA, Philippines - () Starting today, September 2, a group of recruitment agencies will suspend the deployment of household service workers to Singapore over the collection of placement fees by their counterparts in the island-state, recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani said Monday. In a news advisory, members of the Association of Licensed Recruitment Agencies for Singapore (ALRAS) said they will not deploy household service workers until the Singapore agencies stop the practice of collecting placement fees from them. According to POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac, some 1,000 Filipinos leave every month for domestic work in Singapore. Earlier, recruiters sending maids to Hong Kong staged a similar moratorium until their counterparts stopped the practice. Government statistics estimate that as of December 2011, some 180,000 Filipinos are in Singapore, 86,500 of whom work in regular jobs, including as domestic workers. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has prohibited the collection of placement fees for domestic workers bound for abroad. Before the ban, most Philippine-based recruiters advance the payment of these fees and other expenses, and later collect the amount from the migrant workers once they start working and receiving their salary. As domestic workers earn very little, they sometimes work for months without pay just so they could reimburse the fees advanced by the recruiters. kerengkeng
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:01:36 +0000
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