PB warns vs bogus UK job offers

CEBU, Philippines - The Cebu Provincial Board has passed a resolution urging the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency regional office to undertake an information campaign to warn prospective job-seekers against fraudulent and bogus job offers in the United Kingdom.

The PB resolution said that the Philippine Embassy in London has warned Filipinos applying for employment as nannies, hotel staff, domestic helpers, store managers and engineers against bogus job offers in the Internet.

Provincial Board members Victor Maambong and Wilfredo Caminero who introduced the resolution said with working abroad being the ultimate aspiration of many Filipinos, it is easy for many to fall prey to various fraudulent employment schemes in the job market and placement business perpetrated not only by local recruitment agencies but also by foreign-based ones.

Both Maambong and Caminero said the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in London has strongly urged job-seekers who have received “offers” to work there to demand that UK employers submit the original copies of their employment documents to the POLO office in London for verification and authentication.

Some members of the PB shared the observation of both Maambong and Caminero saying that the public ought to be informed that the UK government has replaced the “work permit requirement” with “certificate of sponsorship” as the mode of recruitment and the payment which is to be borne by the UK employer duly licensed as such sponsor by the UK Border Agency. – Jose P. Sollano/BRP   (FREEMAN NEWS)