Recruitment Drive
Last month saw some 19 Filipino manning agents charged with "illegal
recruitment activities" after the Philippine government sent undercover
inspectors posing as job-hunters to Manila's well-known Luneta Seafarers'
Centre.
However, it seems the companies have been left bewildered by the development,
as they are not sure exactly what they are supposed to have done wrong. Anyone
who has visited will be familiar with the fact that people who want to go to
sea congregate in the area, and those looking to employ them do too
so far, so
market forces.
In the past the recruitment would have occurred there and then but changes
introduced by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration suspended
recruitment on the premises. So companies now bus their eager new recruits to
their offices to complete the paperwork.
While the rules stated that manning agents are forbidden to post salary rates
on the premises it remained legal for recruiters to disseminate information,
and according to reports, many of the accused companies seem to have done no
more than that.
But the POEA's detectives seem to think otherwise after setting up a "sting" at
the centre, by sending personnel there who pretended to be jobseekers
and who
then allegedly were handed company brochures, calling cards and flyers listing
their respective job openings which was deemed tantamount to recruitment.
While questions may well remain as to why they have done this, and of whether
indeed anyone is guilty of anything perhaps the bigger issue is of why this
is important. Indeed, why, when many Philippine training centres are threatened
with having their EU plugs pulled are detectives sniffing around the one part
of the local maritime scene which has actually worked and delivered.
Perhaps if anyone is going to send detectives it should be the police to
clampdown on all the hooky training books, DVDs and CBT which are hawked in
Luneta. Now that would be progress.
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