DMW closes another office of illegal recruiter
AFTER shutting down a language training center in Cavite a day earlier because of illegal recruitment, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Friday padlocked a travel agency in Mandaluyong City for the same reason.Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac personally inspected the offices of Thrifty International Travel and Tours Inc. located along Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong City to shut down its operations, allegedly for illegally recruiting Filipino applicants for jobs in Japan and Italy.Two officials of the travel agency were arrested after receiving marked money from the agency's operatives.Cacdac vowed "to get rid of unscrupulous recruiters and syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of OFWs and their families."The Mandaluyong shutdown is the 14th illegal recruitment firm closed by the DMW this year.On Thursday, DMW's Migrant Workers Protection Bureau (MWPB), led by Assistant Secretary Ron de Guzman, shut down the Volant Academy for Language Excellence in Silang, Cavite, after the agency said they recruited their language students for work in Germany — a nurse, caregiver, auto mechanic, baker, butcher, restaurant specialist, and security specialist — and promised a monthly salary of P60,000."The DMW is serious in taking down training centers that offer overseas jobs to their students. This is illegal recruitment because Volant is not licensed by the DMW," de Guzman said in an interview shortly after the operation.
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AFTER shutting down a language training center in Cavite a day earlier because of illegal recruitment, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Friday padlocked a travel agency in Mandaluyong City for the same reason.
Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac personally inspected the offices of Thrifty International Travel and Tours Inc. located along Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong City to shut down its operations, allegedly for illegally recruiting Filipino applicants for jobs in Japan and Italy.
Two officials of the travel agency were arrested after receiving marked money from the agency's operatives.
Cacdac vowed "to get rid of unscrupulous recruiters and syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of OFWs and their families."
The Mandaluyong shutdown is the 14th illegal recruitment firm closed by the DMW this year.
On Thursday, DMW's Migrant Workers Protection Bureau (MWPB), led by Assistant Secretary Ron de Guzman, shut down the Volant Academy for Language Excellence in Silang, Cavite, after the agency said they recruited their language students for work in Germany — a nurse, caregiver, auto mechanic, baker, butcher, restaurant specialist, and security specialist — and promised a monthly salary of P60,000.
"The DMW is serious in taking down training centers that offer overseas jobs to their students. This is illegal recruitment because Volant is not licensed by the DMW," de Guzman said in an interview shortly after the operation.
