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Employment agency suspended for calling in police to Polo

Posted on 26 November 2019 No comments

By Daisy CL Mandap

The folder with the $500 bill was found on the floor beside one of the counters

An employment agency had its accreditation suspended after its representative called in the police to the Philippine Overseas Labor Office on Thursday, Nov 21, claiming that he lost a folder with $500 bill while queuing up for service at the counters.

The folder with the $500 bill tucked in was subsequently found on the floor, but only after police officers had come to investigate the suspected theft.

Acting Labor Attache Antonio Villafuerte identified the agency as O&S, which has its office in North Point.

He said his officers had tried to allay the agent’s concern by promising to check their video camera after office hours as there were a lot of people still waiting to be served at the counters, but he insisted on calling the police.

Pinakiusapan namin na maghintay muna dahil maraming tao ang nakapila pero hindi pumayag,” said Villafuerte. “Nagpilit pa ring tumawag ng pulis.”

According to welfare office Marivic Clarin, the money was supposed to be payment for a worker’s membership to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration.

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In line with their standard practice, the folder with the worker’s information sheet and payment was stacked together with similar applications and placed inside the office just beyond the counters.

The agent reportedly complained at about 3pm, saying his application documents had been in the queue since 11 that morning. When staff checked, his folder couldn’t be found, which apparently made him suspect that the money had been stolen.

A thorough check of the office later revealed that the folder with the money had fallen to the floor beside the next counter.

Clarin admitted that their office needs a better queuing system for documents so incidents like this don’t happen again.

“Malaki din ang pagkukulang namin. Siguro hindi dapat pinapasok yung mga folder hanggang hindi pa tinatawag ang may dala para walang mawala,” she said.

But she said the agent was also at fault for calling in the police even after Polo officers had already assured him that the office video camera would be checked to see where his missing folder went.

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Assaulted Pinay settles case for $10k, agency suspended

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Carol struggles to finish a meal after her ordeal

By Daisy CL Mandap

A Filipina domestic worker who was allegedly punched and threatened with a chopper by an elderly nanny hired by her employers in Ma On Shan is heading back home today, Nov. 26, after settling her case for just under $10,000.

Carol A.decided to go home to Leyte, even after filing a complaint with the Wanchai Police station on Nov. 21 over the alleged assault by the nanny she knew only as “Susan” that took place a week earlier. Carol, 29, who is married and has three kids, had worked for her employer for just over a month.

According to welfare officer Virsie Tamayao who interviewed Carol on Nov. 24 and again on Nov. 25, the worker decided not to pursue her complaint after accepting an additional payment of $5,000 from her employer.

The employment agency that deployed her to Hong Kong, Golden Luzon, has also promised to ask its counterpart in Manila to waive the charges for the loan Carol was forced to take so she could pay the Php28,000 fee for her training and medical check-up.

Earlier, Carol's employer paid more than $5,000 to her for her 13 days’ work and one month salary in lieu of notice. A piece of paper she was asked to sign stated she was terminated for her failure to communicate well in English.

This was even after she showed the employer and the owner of Golden Luzon a medical certificate from a clinic and the Prince of Wales hospital certifying to her injury.

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Carol said the police officers she called on Nov 14 when she decided to leave her employer’s house without notice were the ones who called an ambulance and accompanied her to Prince of Wales.

But they did not take down her statement apparently because they could not understand what she was trying to tell them. Instead, they told her to get someone who could help explain the situation, and go to any nearby police station.

Despite being told this, Golden Luzon’s owner did not take Carol to the police station and instead brokered the settlement with the employer. He also immediately booked Carol for a flight back to Manila.

On learning about this, Acting Labor Attache Antonio Villafuerte ordered the processing of Golden Luzon’s contracts suspended starting Nov. 21. The suspension, however, will last only a maximum of 30 days.

ALA Villafuerte suspended Golden Luzon, citing several violations of its undertaking

ALA Villafuerte said the agent violated his undertaking of not seeking immediate help for the distressed worker. He compounded the violation by helping to make it appear that the worker was terminated, and then booking her for a flight home immediately.

On top of all these, Villafuerte was incensed when the agent reportedly put the phone down on him twice when he tried to inquire about the case.

The top labor official ordered the agent to bring the assaulted worker to Tamayao for an interview on Nov. 21. On learning that Carol had been told by police to file a complaint, Tamayao ordered the agent to accompany her to Wanchai Police Station.

At the station, the officers were visibly concerned on seeing the big bruise on Carol’s left upper arm which remained prominent a week after the alleged assault. But they got even more alarmed when Carol told them that just five days earlier, Susan the nanny had threatened her with a chopper.

According to Carol, the nanny was hired by her employers just two weeks after she arrived, and whose only task was to care for their female employer and her newborn. From the start the language barrier drove a wedge between them, and Susan was reportedly always angry over Carol’s perceived failure to abide by her orders.

At about lunchtime on Nov. 8, Susan reportedly got upset when Carol forgot to heed her order to wash the rice in a basin first before putting it in the cooker. The nanny who was then chopping meat was reportedly so upset that she brought the chopper down hard on the chopping block in front of Carol and shouted at her for being “crazy” and dimwitted.

On Nov. 13, at about 5:30 pm, Susan again got angry when Carol did not heed an order, and when the maid smiled to make light of the situation, the nanny allegedly punched her hard on the arm. Carol said her female employer who was just in the adjoining living room must have seen the attack but did nothing.

Carol said that she had been so terrorized by the two unprovoked attacks on her that she decided to leave the house early the next day after telling her employer she was just going to buy something from the grocery. She never returned.

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Pinay who claims husband might kill her fails to stop deportation from HK

Posted on 25 November 2019 No comments

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Judge says there's no basis for claimant to fear being killed for her infidelity

Another Filipina former domestic worker who filed a torture claim after overstaying her visa, has failed in her attempt in the High Court to prevent her deportation from Hong Kong.

A. P. Libao cited as reason for resisting her deportation her fear of being harmed or killed by her husband in the Philippines because of her intimate relationship with another man in Hong Kong.

But Judge Bruno Chan dismissed her application for leave to apply for judicial review on Nov. 22, saying it had no prospect of success.

Libao tried to seek the judicial review against the decision of both the Director of Immigration and the Torture Claims Adjudication Board rejecting her claim for non-refoulement, or against being sent back home.

The applicant arrived on a two-year domestic worker visa in Hong Kong in December 2015, but her work contract was terminated on Feb 12, 2017.

She overstayed 16 days before surrendering to Immigration and filed a non-refoulement claim, citing her alleged fear of being killed by her husband.

She also claimed a cousin who had a land dispute with her father in 2014 had threatened to kill their entire family.

But on Jan 25, 2018 the Immigration Director rejected her claim, saying the risk to her life was low due to the absence of any past ill-treatment from her husband or cousin.

Libao appealed to the Torture Claims Adjudication Board but this was also dismissed.

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Di man kasali ay damay tayo

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Ni Vir B. Lumicao

Ito ay hindi pangkaraniwang panahon sa Hong Kong. Sa nakaraang anim na buwan ay naranasan nating naririto ang isang mapanganib na yugto ng kasaysayan nitong lungsod.

Dahil sa mga pangyayari sa larangang pampulitika ay biglang nabago ang takbo ng buhay natin, at pati ang ating mga pangarap ay kahit paano naaapektuhan ng mga pangyayari.

Noong panahon ng tinatawag na Umbrella Revolution ay hindi tayo gaanong nabagabag dahil hindi iyon kasindahas at kasintagal ng kasalukuyang pakikibaba para mapanatili ang demokrasya rito kapag ganap nang pamamahalaan ng China ang lugar na ito.

Hindi gaanong marahas ang kilos protestang iyon dahil sa pagtitimpi ng bawat panig, lalo na ng puwersa ng gobyerno na talagang lamang sa sandatang payong ng mga aktibista.

Noong panahong iyon ay tila mahaba pa ang pasensiya ng mga alagad ng batas sa mga protesta ng masa na nanatiling mapayapa kung hindi rin lang dadahasin ng kapulisan.

Kung kaya noon ay hindi gaanong nababahala ang mga naninirahan sa Hong Kong, maging mga lokal na mamamayan o mga dayuhang tulad natin.

Hindi pa mababangis ang mga pulis noon kaya maraming dayuhan, kabilang na ang mga kababayan natin, ang sumama sa protesta at naghayag din ng kanilang mga sama ng loob.

Nagkaroon man ng dagok ang pag-aalsa, na nabansagan ding Occupy Hong Kong, mabilis na nakabawi ang pook na ito at naibalik sa normal ang buhay ng mga mamamayan. Tayong mga dumayo rito upang maghanap-buhay ay di gaanong nabahala.

Sa ating pagbabalik-tanaw, maganda ang ibinunga ng kilusang protestang iyon dahil ipinakita niya sa mga namumuno sa Hong Kong at sa buong mundo na kung kailangang magkaisa at manindigan para sa kanilang karapatan ay tumatalima ang mga mamamayan.

Bumubuhos sa mga lansangan ang milyun-milyong tao upang ibulalas ang kanilang mga hinaing at saloobin, lalo na ang mga pangamba nila sa kanilang magiging kinabukasan.

Ngunit may mga elemento ng lipunang hindi natuwa sa mga pangyayari at sa bandang katapusan ng pag-aalsang iyon ay gumamit sila ng mga maton upang marahas na sawatain ang mga nagpuprotesta.

Marahil nakita ng ilang mga nasa puwesto na mabisang paraan sa pagsawata ng protesta ang ipaubaya sa mga butangero ang pagpaparusa sa mga ayaw sumunod sa batas.

Nang muling bumangon ang mga taga-Hong Kong noong Hunyo upang labanan ang napipintong pagsasabatas ng Extradition Bill ay napaghandaaan na ng mga alagad ng batas ang mga nagmamartsa.

Habang nagmamatigas ang pamahalaan sa panawagang ibasura ang Extradition Bill ay ginagamitan naman ng pulisya ng higit na dahas ang mga kontra sa panukala.

Muling gumamit ng mga maton ang mga nasa poder at nag-angkat pa sila ng mga taga-China upang mansuhin ang mga aktibista. Tumaas ang antas ng karahasang gamit ng mga pulis at natural na magtanggol sa sarili ang mga aktibista.

Mariing dagok sa kabuhayan ng Hong Kong ang kaguluhan ng nakalipas na anim na buwan, at maging tayong mga ayaw sumali sa mga nangyayari ay nakakaramdam ng epekto ng walang katapusang tunggalian.

Ang isang ekonomiyang tulad ng Hong Kong na umaasa sa perang ipapasok ng mga serbisyo sa pananalapi at turismo ay nagdaranas ng matinding epekto ng pag-iwas ng mga negosyo at mga turista sa lungsod na ito.

Hindi magtatagal ay may maririnig na tayong mga kababayang nawawalan ng trabaho dahil hindi na kayang bayaran ng mga negosyong kumuha sa kanila. Makakabalita rin tayo ng mga OFW na pauuwiin na dahil ang mga mismong amo ay wala nang trabaho.

Sa araw-araw na magpapatuloy at umiigting ang labanan ay lumalapit tayo sa bangin, sa ayaw natin at sa gusto. At ang katotohanang ito ay dapat nating mapaghandaan.

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