Part 2: Forgotten Filipinos struggle to remain in Belgium
Resumo
Data informada: 7 Jun 2023
Localização: Bélgica
Empresas
Manpower Resources of Asia - Recruiter , Job Talent - Labour SupplierAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Filipinas - Setor desconhecido , Men , Undocumented migrants )Temas
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Salário abaixo da linha da pobreza , Roubo de salários , Condições de vida precárias/inadequadasResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por The outlet; the Resource Centre
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Medidas tomadas: Neither Job Talent nor Manpower Resources of Asia responded to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
Tipo de fonte: 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…