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POEA puts 4 Saudi firms on the blacklist for not paying OFWs’ salaries

The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency has suspended the deployment of workers to four Saudi employers after 11, 000 of Overseas Filipino Workers were displaced and complained of non-payment of wages.

POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac told Manila Bulletin that they already put the companies Saudi Oger, Ltd. (SOL), Saudi bin Ladin Group of Companies (SBG), Mohammed Al Mojil Group (MMG), and Mohammad Hameed Al-Bargash & Bros in the agency’s blacklist to make sure that no other OFWs will experience such fate.

The firms are among the nine financially troubled Saudi companies which have been reported by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to have displaced the thousands of OFWs who got stranded in Saudi Arabia.

The other five Saudi establishments are Alumco L.L.C., Rajeh H Al Merri Contracting & Trading Company, Fawzi Salah Al Nairani Contracting Company, Arabtec Construction L.L.C., and Real Estate Development and Investment Company.
“We are investigating the other employers on that list and will take appropriate action, which includes suspension of deployment, if it is warranted,” Administrator Cacdac was quoted by The Manila Bulletin.

Cacdac issued the clarification after migrant advocate group, United Overseas Filipinos Worldwide (U-OFW), claimed they received reports that some of the nine aforementioned companies were still able to recruit OFWs despite their financial woes.

“We have stopped processing workers to be deployed to these four Saudi employers in order not to aggravate the situation. Kay kung magsigi ta og pada og mga workers didto, mas modaghan na hinoon ang problema. In fact, right now DOLE Secretary Bello is still in Saudi to check the situation,” POEA-7 director Evelyn Dorato told The Philippine Star.

Dorato said most of the OFWs working in these companies are construction workers like carpenters, masons and welders.

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