Lately, there’s been a lot of media coverage on the Foreign Live in Caregiver Program (LCP). The Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Toronto has outlined changes to the Employer-Employee contract for live in caregivers (LIC).
To read more click on link below:
http://www.immigrationhour.com/new-lcp-contract-scares-canadian-employers-away/
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Hello... what do you know about the underground market of nannies/caregivers... those that are being brought into Canada without "real" jobs.
I've learned that there are a huge number of Filipino caregivers arriving, with cancelled job offers. Many of them are arriving direct from the Philippines
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From: “Edelberto Anit”
This is my share on the issue. First, a short about
me and about my job. I am working for a private company which is outsourcing all products from
factories (others call it subcontractors) as a Corporate Social Responsibility auditor. As CSR or responsible brand sourcing from different countries around the world, we are bound to protect workers, regardless of ationality, engage in producing our company brands.
In countries short of labor like Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, foreign workers are employed. This is where
we see sorry fate of the many foreign workers, from Philippines, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal,
Bangladesh, etc. Most of these workers are employed through agents to whom they pay exorbitant placement fees. People here in the country think that after paying the fees, everything will be smooth there at the job site. POEA has to bear in mind that foreign
companies hire foreign workers because it is cheap compared when hiring local labor. In Japan, they have come up with such a wise immigration rule. Foreign
workers will be hired as trainee for the first year of employment and that they will only receive a training allowance, not the legal minimum wage. (There are
wide range of issues from different countries from
different immigration and labor rules that affect foreign workers and I will have to write a book in
order to account for all of it).
However, this is what will happen if money is bonded for employment, whether it is through recruitment
agency or direct hire. Let say the applicant is not able to pay for it, therefore, the employer will have to pay for it. If an employer really like to hire a Filipino, he will pay all the hiring costs. However, employers are not so generous as they may appear or
show to our POEA officials. Once the employee reach the jobsite, they will not be treated like their son or children, they are workers. New contract will be
signed upon reaching the jobsite duly approved by their own country’s labor law. The contract provided to POEA will just be a piece of garbage as foreign
employers does not have to comply with our labor rules as employment is happening in their country not in the Philippines, lest POEA will be willing to go to international arbitration, which will make the issue all the more complicated. Going back to the worker in
the job sites. The new contract that he will sign will include all the money spent by the employer which the employee has to pay in installment simply because
the worker can’t pay in one shot. What’s the employer’s insurance that worker stays for as long as
he has to pay all of the money? The employer will keep the passsport of the worker and even all documents that the employee brought along with him/her
in a pretense that it is not safe in employee’s safe keeping. Then it becomes a case of bonded labor and eventually problem of forced labor will also come up.
The problem with OFW’s is that they hide all of these isfortune’s once they return here in the country. I remember meeting a group of helpers (don’t like to
call them domestic helpers because I think it’s a disregard to them, how should I call them) in a
stairway connecting a hotel and MRT station. I had a short chat with them where I learned that they will spend the whole Sunday afternoon there over a pile of
Filipino pocket books and a bunch of banana. They are avoiding to spend money because they have to send all the money to Philippines.
Whether it is a direct hire or through agency, foreign
workers are in a sorry state. They are away from their family that causes family problems back home.
They are certainly prone and very vurnerable to exploitation and labor abuse. The dollars that OFW
brings home to our country is not enough to solve the
problems of domestic and family problems in the Philippines. The lost time that should have been
spent together, broken marriages, children gettinmg hooked to drugs. Instead of adding burden to OFW’s
the POEA or the government should think of a program that will take of OFW’s family. Regular visit to OFW families and checking them and their children that
everything is going well is one initiative that can be
done.
Sir, I have to cut off since it has too long already. But I still have a lot of things to share.
thanks
edel
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