A RECRUITMENT expert warned the public against illegal recruitment syndicates offering non-existent jobs inside US bases in Afghanistan after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) lifted a partial ban on workers currently working inside the said bases.
Emmanuel Geslani, a recruitment and migration specialist issued the warning after learning that illegal recruitment syndicates are now going to some provinces, particularly in Central Luzon, luring skilled construction workers by offering to take them to Dubai and transit them to Kabul where there are reportedly high-paying jobs waiting inside US bases in Kandahar and Bagram.
The US Military Central Command has earlier allowed private contractors to extend the work contracts or letters of appointment for Filipinos beyond 2011.
Current employment contract usually covers six months and renewable at the option of the company and the employee.
The memo from the US military explicitly states that only those with existing contracts can have their employment contracts.
The POEA partial ban states that no new workers can be deployed to those bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Benigno Aquino 3rd earlier stressed that only Filipinos presently working inside the bases can be allowed to continue working and be allowed to return home for their vacation leaves upon the renewal of their contracts.
Geslani, who is also the spokesman for Filipinos in Afghanistan, an informal group that worked for the extension of the working privileges for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), scored the POEA’s Balik-Mangagawa Section for inconsistent policies on the processing of the OFWs returning to Afghanistan through the Dubai International Airport, the jump-off point to the bases in Bagram and Kandahar Airfields.
He maintained that the E-visa which is now the common form of issuing visas should be accepted by the evaluators at POEA for the procurement of an Overseas Exit Clearance, the travel document needed at airports.
Some companies in Kandahar and Bagram have stopped using old original visas, according to Geslani.
However, POEA’s chief evaluator, according to Geslani, insists on sticking to the original visa.
“The E-visa, the company ID, contracts, or letters of appointment should be enough evidence that the POEA should accept for workers applying for an OEC and passports which bear the multiple stamps for entry and exit of workers from Dubai International airport are also proof that the worker has worked and is still working for companies in the US bases,” Geslani added.
“The POEA Balik-Mangagawa section should not make it any harder for our workers who were granted this privilege through POEA Governing Board Resolution No.5 which allows them to renew their contracts and take vacation in the country,” he said.
Source Manila Times
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