Thank you, POEA Admin Cacdac for cancelling the license of OFW Recruitment, the agency that i submitted to the U.S. State Dept TIP Report for overcharging placement fees to the OFWs in Taiwan (Re: Open Letter #71 receipt #001703 4/18/2013) Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:47 PM From: "maria embry" To: haby1305@yahoo, [email protected], [email protected], poeainfocenter@yahoo, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], lacierda@gmail, sonnycoloma@gmail, sonny_coloma@yahoo, ian.f.soqueno@gmail, evdemesa@gmail, katmanahan@gmail, [email protected], vpbinay@gmail, lmdelima.doj@gmail, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], dole_lco@yahoo, [email protected], admin.owwa@gmail, [email protected], rep.waldenbello@yahoo, waldenbello@hotmail, [email protected], "Cong Roy Seneres" , mbcalpito@gmail... more Thank you, POEA Admin Cacdac for cancelling the license of OFW Recruitment, the agency that i submitted to the U.S. State Dept TIP Report for overcharging placement fees to the OFWs in Taiwan (Re: Open Letter #71 receipt #001703 4/18/2013) ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "[email protected]" To: Hon Joy Ngozi Ezeilo UN Special Rapporteur ; U.S. Department of State 2013 Trafficking in Person Report Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:04 PM Subject: Open Letter #71 to the Hon Sect John Kerry Re: Philippine Government as a Defacto Human Trafficker in continually granting license to OFW RECRUITMENT AGENCY that overcharges placement fees, has connections with lending agency, etc when it deployed workers who found themselves in deplorable conditions in Taiwan sent 4/18/2013 9:00 pm California time contact-us.state.gov/app/ask_confirm/refno/130418-001703 Your Question has been Submitted Thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of State. Dear Hon John Kerry: Sir, as your honorable office gather the data for the 2013 Trafficking in Person Report, allow me to call your attention to the role of the Philippine Government as a Defacto Human Trafficker in continually granting license to OFW RECRUITMENT AGENCY that overcharges placement fees, has connections with lending agency, etc when it deployed workers who found themselves in deplorable conditions in Taiwan. Although, the workers filed formal complaints against the OFW RECRUITMENT AGENCY. however, the authority to recruit and deployed workers to overseas jobs was not withdrawn by the Philippine government from the agency. Source: poea.gov.ph/cgi-bin/agList.asp?mode=all Status of Recruitment Agencies as of Apr 16, 2013 9:15:46 AM...OFW RECRUITMENT AGENCY: License Valid until 12/28/2014 Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) defines SEVERE FORMS OF TRAFFICKING as the recruitment....for labor through the use of FRAUD for the purpose of subjection to INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, PEONAGE, DEBT BONDAGE or SLAVERY (emphasis supplied). Sir, thank you for your attention regarding this matter. Sincerely, Maria Elizabeth Embry ~~~~~~~~~~~ Source: excerpt: globalnation.inquirer.net/7115/recruiter-advised-ofw-to-jump-off-a-building-to-get-insurance-money By Susan K Philippine Daily Inquirer July 23rd, 2011 Lorena Banggayan, Mary Rose Saberon and Rowena Villanueva, three hopeful overseas contract workers from Nueva Ecija, went to Taiwan as "caretakers" after applying with the OFW Recruitment Agency at a job fair held at their barangay last February 09, 2011. After borrowing more than P150,000 each for their recruitment fees, however, they all scurried home after barely two weeks. They visited Bantay OCW at Radyo Inquirer last July 19, 2011 to complain that they had been set up for virtual slave labor. They sought redress for what they referred to as their "unsuccessful and lost chance abroad". OFW Banggayan was deployed last June 22, 2011 but was back after only three days. She said she was made to work from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.―the first half of the day at a one-hectare fish farm where she was told to feed the fish then cut the grass and spray pesticides; then at noon she was returned to her employer’s residence to prepare lunch, clean the house and care for an elderly member. Banggayan, a mother of three, wept while begging her broker in Taiwan to allow her to return home. OFW Saberon lasted 16 days in Taiwan. She said she was made to work at the agency then was deployed with several employers. When she contacted OFW Recruitment Agency to complain about the job after all the money she had forked over, a staffer named Benzon Tan reportedly advised her to go jump off a building so she could collect insurance money to recover her recruitment costs. OFW Villanueva also said she was given an almost impossible job when she arrived in Taiwan last June 14, 2011. She lasted 9 days after solely cleaning a six-storey house with eight huge rooms and several cars every day. When she visited her local agency to complain that this was not the job she expected, the same Benzon Tan advised her to be an agent and recruit others (P5,000 per head)to recover her lost money. The three complainants had all taken out loans of P150,000-P160,000 with a lending company referred to them by the OFW Recruitment Agency. Banggayan also sold her house in Nueva Ecija worth P100,000 for the processing of other documents. Saberon’s parents mortgaged their lot. Villanueva borrowed about P50,000 more from other sources. Bantay OCW learned that OFW Recruitment Agency was licensed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) but they had no approved job order on their records. When contacted by Bantay OCW, Benzon Tan denied he told Saberon to go jump off a building. He said the girl probably overheard him "teasing" a different applicant over her insurance coverage. He also denied advising Villanueva to recruit other applicants to such jobs in Taiwan. Tan did not answer our questions regarding the agency’s job orders. The three complainants have since filed a complaint with the POEA against the recruitment agency. Their conciliation hearings are set this July 27, August 1 and 4, 2011. The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has offered to assist them in their legal battle against agencies suspected of selling their kababayan into slave labor. ~~~~~~~~~~~ remate.ph/2011/08/ofw-recruitment-agency-patuloy-na-nambibiktima-ng-mga-aplikante/ globalnation.inquirer.net/8459/more-reports-of-abuses-in-taiwan More reports of abuses in Taiwan By Susan K Philippine Daily Inquirer August 7th, 2011 ... more complainants are emerging. Recently, Cristine Geronimo and Rowena Gamit, also from Nueva Ecija, sought the assistance of Bantay OCW through Radyo Inquirer. OFW Geronimo said she resigned from her job as caretaker in Taiwan after only six days because her 70-year-old ward kept molesting her. An agency employee named Rita told her, in so many words that lascivious old men were to be considered "normal," adding: "Why, were you raped or impregnated?" If she did not have money to return to Manila, that was her problem. At any rate, news is that the OFW Recruitment Agency is putting girls from Nueva Ecija on hold for the moment. Unfortunately for Gamit, she has already paid the agency P80,000. Bantay OCW will be monitoring their conciliation hearings on Aug. 11 and Aug 30. ~~~~~~~~~~~ poea.gov.ph/cgi-bin/agList.asp?mode=all Status of Recruitment Agencies as of Apr 16, 2013 9:15:46 AM OFW RECRUITMENT AGENCY Status : Valid License License Validity : 12/29/2010 to 12/28/2014
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:14:17 +0000
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