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Monday, December 05, 2005
Recruitment agencies told to tighten reins
LABOR officials recently directed overseas job placement agencies in Soccsksargen to implement a strict screening system for their applicants.
The call for tightening reins is in a bid to curb the rising cases of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who were refused and eventually sent home by their employers.
Lawyer Tomas Bautista, regional labor arbiter of the National Labor Relations Commission, said their office received several complaints from returning OFWs who had accused some local recruitment agencies and employers of "non-compliance of contracts."
"There are many OFWs who were refused and sent home by their employers due to their failure to comply or qualify for the job that they applied for," Bautista said at a media forum in Koronadal City.
Citing complaints received by their offices in the cities of Cotabato, Koronadal and General Santos, Bautista said language barrier is, by far, among the major reasons why some employers are rejecting OFWs.
He said most of these cases are in Europe, Middle East, and some Asian countries.
The labor arbiter said a domestic helper from a town in Cotabato province was sent home by her employer in the United Arab Emirates after only a week since the worker could not understand Arabic and hardly speaks English.
There were also cases where OFWs were maltreated by their employers because they could not understand each other.
"These are supposedly basic language requirements that prospective OFWs should have complied before their deployment," Bautista said. (Allen V. Estabillo)
(December 5, 2005 issue)
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