Philippines: Govt. closes R. T. M. Maritime Consultancy Services for posing as recruitment agency & charging high recruitment fees
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 7 Sep 2023
Ubicación: Filipinas
Empresas
R. T. M. Maritime Consultancy Services - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Filipinas , Astilleros, navegación, limpieza de barcos , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )Temas
Tasas de contrataciónRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: The company was shut down by the Department of Migrant Workers which it did not have a valid license or accreditation but received and processed applications and referred these to its partner manning agency.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
“DMW shuts down maritime firm posing as recruitment agency”
THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Thursday closed down a shipping company posing as a recruitment agency.
The DMW said the R. T. M. Maritime Consultancy Services Corp. that RTM does not have a valid license or accreditation from the department but received and processed applications and referred these to its partner manning agency.
RTM collected "consultation" fees ranging from P105,000 to as much as P140,000 from applicants who were promised fake jobs as seafarers in Dubai.
"We cannot allow these unlicensed agencies posing as 'consultancy firms' to continue offering supposedly lucrative job postings to our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and goading them to pay excessive amounts of money. This is criminal and unconscionable," Migrant Workers Officer-in-Charge Hans Cacdac said…