Employment Agencies And Witholding Passports As Ransom

[Call me bubba]

Their is an English guy and his wife that has been in prison for about 3 years now awaiting trial that run such an agency, They are accused of human trafficking

Any updates on this man? story?

[brock]

Their is an English guy and his wife that has been in prison for about 3 years now awaiting trial that run such an agency, They are accused of human trafficking

Any updates on this man? story?

New Post, so not to steal this thread...Still in prison

[Thomas]

The lady we are talking about is working in the Philippines, So why should their be a need to hand over her passport.

Sorry but it sounds a bit fishy to me.

Also Bob is right, it is ilegal for any agency to take the passport,

Their is an English guy and his wife that has been in prison for about 3 years now awaiting trial that run such an agency, They are accused of human trafficking

Well. It isn't odd if she has applied to abroad work through this agency, they have done work, but she hasn't fullfilled the agreement.

If I remember corect, ofw agencies are among businesses where kanos aren't allowed to be involved.

[Julia]

The lady we are talking about is working in the Philippines, So why should their be a need to hand over her passport.

Sorry but it sounds a bit fishy to me.

Also Bob is right, it is ilegal for any agency to take the passport,

Their is an English guy and his wife that has been in prison for about 3 years now awaiting trial that run such an agency, They are accused of human trafficking

Well. It isn't odd if she has applied to abroad work through this agency, they have done work, but she hasn't fulfilled the agreement.

If I remember correct, ofw agencies are among businesses where kanos aren't allowed to be involved.

Yes you are totally right about this, Thomas! There are some Pinays who changed their mind at the last minute - that is after being trained by the agency, and after all the employment papers were processed by an agency - by doing this, the agent whom we might consider as the middleman between the Pinay and the employer abroad will be the one to shoulder the penalty for such unfulfilled agreement.

Other reasons are also because there is also this possibility of other agencies who will entice these Pinays offering them a higher pay or better offer that is sometimes hard to resist. To avoid this, the agency opted to withholding the passports. It is more of a security for the money and time and effort they had invested in processing the employment papers of a Pinay.

I have an uncle who works in an employment agency. He is just paid commission basis for every Pinay he sent to work abroad. But every time that Pinay backs out from the agreement, he is the one who has to pay P5,000.00 as penalty for that unfulfilled agreement.

This is how it works here in Pinas and i am not proud of it...

[Thomas]

the agent whom we might consider as the middleman between the Pinay and the employer abroad will be the one to shoulder the penalty for such unfulfilled agreement.

Yes, and even if it's earlier in the process so they don't get any penalty, they can have done work and paid fees for e g health test.

Other reasons are also because there is also this possibility of other agencies who will entice these Pinays offering them a higher pay or better offer that is sometimes hard to resist. To avoid this, the agency opted to withholding the passports. It is more of a security for the money and time and effort they had invested in processing the employment papers of a Pinay.

Depend of what they have agreed to, but I don't like if Philippine people are forced to take work they dont want,

BUT I find it OK the agency keep the passport to try to get pay for their work.

[Julia]

but I don't like if Philippine people are forced to take work they don't want,

me neither, Thomas...

working as HR Officer for almost fifteen years I saw the sad flight of our Registered Nurses working as Train Operators or Security Officers, or Engineering graduates working as Station Tellers, and some Licensed Teachers doing clerical jobs instead of teaching in school, and some college graduates even doing janitorial jobs or waiters receiving below minimum wage --- obvious misfits to the job they have...

they were not forced to do the work, they may not like the job that they do , but then again, they have no choice at all...

This is how it is in Pinas - and again, I am not proud of it!

Edited November 22, 2012 by Julia

[Thomas]

but I don't like if Philippine people are forced to take work they don't want,

me neither, Thomas...

been an HR Officer for almost fifteen years, and it is indeed sad to see the flight of our Registered Nurses working as Train Operators or Security Officers, or Engineering graduates working as Station Tellers, and some Licensed Teachers doing clerical jobs instead of teaching in school, and some college graduates even doing janitorial jobs or waiters receiving below minimum wage --- obvious misfits to the job they have...

they were not forced to do the work, they may not like the job that they do , but then again, they have no choice at all...

This is how it is in Pinas - and again, I am not proud of it!

I ment when not liking the employer or country.

I didn't mean when they get an other type of work they have special education to do. Better have "wrong" work than have no work. (I have had both some interesting boss jobs, but worked in "sh&t" jobs too during some bad economy periods myself.)

Some Filipinas, which I know, have university educations within computers, but work abroad as nannies or domestic helpers, because they didn't got any (suiting) jobs in the Philippines. They would prefer to live in the Philippines close to their families.

One of them is nanny "allways" as a mother, but is alloved to use Internet during "working hours" when she can for the work, and is allowed to eat very well as much as she want, so she like the employment.

An other is domestic helper abroad and earn as a Phili doctor in salary plus get room and is supposed to get normal food free too, but the employer is banting and expect her to do too. Once she got only an apple as "lunch"!!. She didn't like the employment at all, but the agency made so she got an other job in same country.

[i am bob]

As far as working outside one's own field, that is worldwide... Or at least common here in Canada too! That is why I have many different vocations - retail management, avionics technologist, taxi driver, quality assurance specialist for Contact Centres (corporate or BPO), vocational teacher, and the list goes on. A few of these I was doing at the same time - ie: network engineer / systems administrator plus taxi driver plus retail manager. All I can say is: It may not be what you went to school for but now you are an adult - so quit complaining and get to work!

I could even add professional baseball umpire... :mocking:

[Julia]

could even add professional baseball umpire... :mocking:

that is great, Bob! :thumbsup:

I honestly don't mind any job as long as it is a decent one

been a balut vendor - and earned enough to help me through college! so balut anyone? :mocking:

oppps!

sorry, off topic! :th_imstupid:

Edited November 22, 2012 by Julia

[Curley]

been a balut vendor - and earned enough to help me through college! so balut anyone? :mocking: oppps!

I used to chat with a girl who sold balut, she averaged 300 pesos per day net profit, one day she gave it up because it was boring. A week later I had a request for a loan of 3,000 pesos.

Needless to say we no longer chat.