OFWs warned on ‘3rd country’ job schemes

THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has warned overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are employed at present against socalled “third country” recruitment schemes.

The POEA, in a report to La the weekend on complaints workers (HSWs) in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cyprus who were lured by recruiters into transfer Russia and other countries but later found out that the working ideal or, worse, the jobs offered are non-existent.

The recruiters are mostly citizens of the third country who

- secretary and acting POEA administrator, said the OFWs should be careful in accepting offers of employment in another country.

According to Say, recruitment through a third country is considered illegal recruitment because neither the recruiter nor the employer has proper authorization

Earlier, Susan Ople, founder and president of the Blas Ople Policy Center, disclosed in a radio is a Russian-based Pakistani married to a Filipino woman.

According to Ople, recruitment is being done through the Internet and hundreds had already been Filipino household workers in Hong Kong and other countries.

to pay as much as $5,000 and, in sent to them to come to Russia.

Once in Russia, Ople added, one room of the two-room house of the Pakistani recruiter, for a fee.

to pay a certain percentage of their earnings to the Pakistani,” she said.

Reports said those who found employment are sometimes abused by the employers and, for lack of proper work documents, the workers are arrested and deported by immigration authorities.

For their own protection, appli