Part 1: How Filipinos landed in Belgium’s biggest trafficking scandal
الملخص
Date Reported: 7 يونيو 2023
الموقع: بلجيكا
الشركات
Raj Bhar Engineering - Employer , Borealis (joint venture Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of Abu Dhabi & OMV). - Other Value Chain Entity , IREM - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 174
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - بنجلاديش , التصنيع: عامة , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الفيلبين , التصنيع: عامة , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - تركيا , التصنيع: عامة , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )القضايا
الحرمان من حرية التنقل , Wage Theft , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Contract Substitution , الإتجار بالبشر , التمييز على أساس الحالة الإجتماعيةالرد
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: Borealis and IREM provided responses to the Resource Centre. Raj Bhar Engineering did not. The case is currently before the Belgian state and workers were granted Orange Cards - a type of residency permit renewable while the case is under inquiry.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 7 يونيو 2023
الموقع: بولندا
الشركات
VFG International - Recruiter , Daeshin Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الفيلبين , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
رسوم التوظيف , Poverty Wagesالرد
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: Neither company responded to request for comment.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 7 يونيو 2023
الموقع: بلجيكا
الشركات
BASF - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 58
عمال مهاجرون: ( 58 - الفيلبين , التصنيع: عامة , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )القضايا
Failing to renew visasالرد
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: BASF responded to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
In July 2022, Belgian police discovered 174 illegally employed workers at a factory owned by Borealis, an Austrian multinational and chemical manufacturer. Most of the workers were Turkish and Bangladeshi, 65 were Filipino…
…the Filipinos were severely underpaid, earning €8.50 (P512) an hour…
… The company denies any wrongdoing and blames the Italian manpower agency and subcontractor IREM group…
…the Filipinos were recruited to work in Belgium by IREM and another subcontractor, Raj Bhar Engineering…
…The workers, owed months of back-pay for the legally-mandated wages of around €8500 (P517,556), are at risk of being forgotten…
When asked who his previous employers were, he pointed to the printed logo on the jacket – it said Daeshin Construction plant…
A mere US$2.7 (P149) an hour on 10-hour shifts was not the income he hoped for, especially after paying an P80,000 placement fee to recruitment agency VFG International…
Many of the workers were recruited through Raj Bhar Engineering…On its website, the company lists IREM SPA and two other IREM group subsidiaries as partners.
The Filipino and Bangladeshi workers point to the IREM group as the main culprit…
A month after the Borealis scandal…police discovered 58 Filipino workers illegally employed by German chemical producer BASF…