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2023๋…„ 6์›” 7์ผ

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Michael Beltran, Rappler (The Philippines)

Part 1: How Filipinos landed in Belgiumโ€™s biggest trafficking scandal

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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 Filipinoโ€ฆ

โ€ฆthe Filipinos were severely underpaid, earning โ‚ฌ8.50 (P512) an hourโ€ฆ

โ€ฆ The company denies any wrongdoing and blames the Italian manpower agency and subcontractor IREM groupโ€ฆ

โ€ฆthe Filipinos were recruited to work in Belgium by IREM and another subcontractor, Raj Bhar Engineeringโ€ฆ

โ€ฆThe workers, owed months of back-pay for the legally-mandated wages of around โ‚ฌ8500 (P517,556), are at risk of being forgottenโ€ฆ

When asked who his previous employers were, he pointed to the printed logo on the jacket โ€“ it said Daeshin Construction plantโ€ฆ

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 Internationalโ€ฆ

Many of the workers were recruited through Raj Bhar Engineeringโ€ฆOn 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 culpritโ€ฆ

A month after the Borealis scandalโ€ฆpolice discovered 58 Filipino workers illegally employed by German chemical producer BASFโ€ฆ

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