Philippines: Govt. closes R. T. M. Maritime Consultancy Services for posing as recruitment agency & charging high recruitment fees
摘要
日期: 2023年9月7日
地点: 菲律宾
企业
R. T. M. Maritime Consultancy Services - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 菲律宾 , 船运、造船和拆船 , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )议题
招聘费回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: 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.
信息来源: 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…