Wednesday, April 02, 2008 OFW: POEA must monitor overseas workers' condition abroad By Carlo P. Mallo
AN OVERSEAS Filipino worker (OFW), who claims to have had his contract violated by his employer, has asked the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) to be more stringent in monitoring the OFWs abroad.
In an interview last Friday, Reneal Batino, an OFW from Kuwait, said there are a number of Filipinos abroad who are suffering from the abuses of their employers.
"There should be a strict monitoring from the POEA," Batino said.
Even when going through the course of a legal recruitment agency, Batino said that some OFWs are still subject to abuses and deceit of their employers and even by the recruitment agencies in the Philippines.
"They have to make sure that their agencies are telling the truth," Batino said in the dialect. "They must also file complaints before the POEA, if they have any, and to always get a receipt for everything that they pay for with their recruitment agency."
Batino is one of the nine OFWs who came home from Kuwait after their employer in Kuwait allegedly did not follow their contracts.
The group is set to file a formal complaint before the POEA on April 14.
