Part 1: How Filipinos landed in Belgium’s biggest trafficking scandal
要約
Date Reported: 2023年6月7日
場所: ベルギー
企業
Raj Bhar Engineering - Employer , Borealis (joint venture Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of Abu Dhabi & OMV). - Other Value Chain Entity , IREM - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 174
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - バングラデシュ , 製造業: 一般 , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - トルコ , 製造業: 一般 , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )課題
移動の自由の否定 , Wage Theft , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Contract Substitution , 人身売買 , 配偶者の有無に関する差別回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Borealis and IREM provided responses to the Resource Centre. Raj Bhar Engineering did not. The case is currently before the Belgian state and workers were granted Orange Cards - a type of residency permit renewable while the case is under inquiry.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年6月7日
場所: ポーランド
企業
VFG International - Recruiter , Daeshin Construction - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 建設 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
採用費 , Poverty Wages回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Neither company responded to request for comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年6月7日
場所: ベルギー
企業
BASF - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 58
移住者・移民労働者: ( 58 - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )課題
Failing to renew visas回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: BASF responded to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
In July 2022, Belgian police discovered 174 illegally employed workers at a factory owned by Borealis, an Austrian multinational and chemical manufacturer. Most of the workers were Turkish and Bangladeshi, 65 were Filipino…
…the Filipinos were severely underpaid, earning €8.50 (P512) an hour…
… The company denies any wrongdoing and blames the Italian manpower agency and subcontractor IREM group…
…the Filipinos were recruited to work in Belgium by IREM and another subcontractor, Raj Bhar Engineering…
…The workers, owed months of back-pay for the legally-mandated wages of around €8500 (P517,556), are at risk of being forgotten…
When asked who his previous employers were, he pointed to the printed logo on the jacket – it said Daeshin Construction plant…
A mere US$2.7 (P149) an hour on 10-hour shifts was not the income he hoped for, especially after paying an P80,000 placement fee to recruitment agency VFG International…
Many of the workers were recruited through Raj Bhar Engineering…On its website, the company lists IREM SPA and two other IREM group subsidiaries as partners.
The Filipino and Bangladeshi workers point to the IREM group as the main culprit…
A month after the Borealis scandal…police discovered 58 Filipino workers illegally employed by German chemical producer BASF…