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27 Mär 2024

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By Katie McQue, Al Jazeera (Qatar)

Poland: Filipino workers, incl. in fish & poultry factories, charged fees for jobs under false promises of higher pay & legalised status

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“Trapped, abandoned: Filipino workers lured to Poland by shadowy agents”

… Robby* was finishing up his shift on a production line at a chicken factory in Mlawa, Poland….

“I was not aware I was illegal. I thought my agency had obtained a work permit for me,” he told Al Jazeera…

Hopeful candidates respond to some of the hundreds of adverts posted online and on social media that falsely offer Filipino workers stable, well-paid jobs…

Cora and Ronald paid more than $11,000 to a Philippine recruitment agency for their factory jobs on the outskirts of Warsaw…

Their agency also said they would be entering full-time jobs and be direct employees of the company they worked for. When they arrived, they found out they’d be working uncertain hours for a subcontractor….

…t hey were placed in a five-bedroom apartment with eight others. There is only one bathroom and a small kitchen that everybody shares…

… After paying $5,700 to a recruitment agency, she has a seasonal job in a factory that produces flooring….

Ana, 30, paid $4,080 to get her job in Poland and was told by her recruiter she would earn more than $700 monthly. She was placed in a fish factory in Grzybowo with an hourly rate of $3….

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