Part 1: How Filipinos landed in Belgium’s biggest trafficking scandal
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 6월 7일
위치: 벨기에
기업 페이지
Borealis (joint venture Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of Abu Dhabi & OMV). - Other Value Chain Entity , IREM - Employer , Raj Bhar Engineering - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 174
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 방글라데시 , 제조: 일반 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 터키 , 제조: 일반 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 제조: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
이동의 자유 , 임금 착취 , 비사법적 구제절차에 대한 접근성 , 계약 대체 , 인신매매 , 결혼할 권리결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 6월 7일
위치: 폴란드
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Daeshin Construction - Employer , VFG International - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 시공 , Gender not reported )토픽들
직업소개수수료 , 빈곤 임금결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Neither company responded to request for comment.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 6월 7일
위치: 벨기에
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BASF - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 58
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 58 - 필리핀 , 제조: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
비자 갱신 실패결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: BASF responded to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
출처: 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…