Part 2: Forgotten Filipinos struggle to remain in Belgium
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 6월 7일
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Job Talent - Labour Supplier , Manpower Resources of Asia - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 - 알 수 없는 업종 , Gender not reported )토픽들
강간과 성적 학대 , 빈곤 임금 , 임금 착취 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The outlet; the Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
응답을 볼 수 있는 외부 링크: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Neither Job Talent nor Manpower Resources of Asia responded to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
출처: News outlet
…The discovery of trafficked laborers, including 65 Filipinos, at the Borealis plant in Antwerp led the Belgian government to grant them temporary residence…
Among the 65 workers, Henry, the Batangueño pipe fitter, couldn’t stand working for Flemish manpower agency Job Talent...
The agency sent him to live in the city of Zaventem while going to Antwerp as a pipe fitter, around an hour away..
… with regulations that seemed unnecessarily expensive and punitive…
…Henry and his four other housemates had to give up €95 (P5,784) a week, bringing down his take-home pay…
Job Talent refused to be interviewed. They only emailed a response saying, “We are indeed the leading organization in the employment of Filipino technical workers. We work 100% in compliance with Belgian labor laws and are accredited in the Philippines.”
Manpower Resources of Asia … is listed as Job Talent’s Philippine partner in numerous job listings…
IREM said it remains “committed to fully cooperate with the Belgian authorities and to provide all available evidence to allow the authorities to ascertain the correctness of the conduct of the company.” It also pointed out that almost a year since, it has yet to contend with official charges…
Borealis maintained its innocence, implying in a statement that culpability lies with IREM…