Philippine job agencies cheating women with illegal fees and crippling loans
摘要
日期: 2023年6月27日
地點: 香港
企業
Prosperity and Success Lending Investor Corporation - Other Value Chain Entity , A&W International Manpower Services - Recruiter其他
Not Reported ( 行業未知/不適用 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 菲律賓 - 未知行业 , Women , Documented migrants )議題
扣留身份證件 , 恐嚇和威脅 , 招聘費用 , Dismissal回應
已邀請回應：是，由The Guardian
回應的外部鏈接： (查看更多)
後續行動: Neither Prosperity & Success nor A&W responded to request for comment. NGO Migrasia was supporting workers to file complaints from workers with Philippines Govt. entities.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2023年6月27日
地點: 香港
企業
Rapid Manpower Consultants - Recruiter , Hoya Lending Investor Corporation - Other Value Chain Entity其他
Not Reported ( 行業未知/不適用 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 菲律賓 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
招聘費用 , 恐嚇和威脅 , Dismissal , 扣留身份證件 , Harassment (other than sexual)回應
已邀請回應：是，由The Guardian
後續行動: The companies did not respond to the Guardian request for comment.
資訊來源: News outlet
Employment agencies and money-lending companies in the Philippines are cheating women applying for jobs abroad out of thousands of pounds…
Recruiters take applicants … to financial firms they have links with to take out loans to pay the fees, which come with interest rates often exceeding 130%...
Merry Criz Renayong … said she was told by the recruitment agency Rapid Manpower Consultants that she needed to pay $1,200 in medical and training fees when she applied for a job in Hong Kong in 2019.
When she said she could not afford to pay the fees, she said she was taken to the nearby offices of Hoya Lending Investor Corporation, where she signed a loan agreement. But she said: “I was not allowed to take a photo of the contract.”…
When Annabelle Gutierrez…applied for a job in Hong Kong through A&W International Manpower Services, she was informed she needed to take out a loan with Prosperity & Success Lending Investor Corporation…
Hoya Lending and Prosperity & Success declined to comment. Rapid Manpower and A&W did not respond to repeated requests for comment and neither did the Philippine SEC. The Department of Migrant Workers said it would provide a comment, but none has been received…