{"id":143308,"date":"2018-01-02T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143308"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:35:43","slug":"ofws-warned-anew-vs-recruiters-offering-fake-jobs-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/02\/ofws-warned-anew-vs-recruiters-offering-fake-jobs-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"OFWs warned anew vs. recruiters offering fake jobs in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143309\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/airport-1503332_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143309\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/airport-1503332_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"The advisory was issued based on the report of Philippine Embassy in Greece on the increasing number of illegal recruitment cases of OFWs in Russia. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/airport-1503332_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/airport-1503332_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/airport-1503332_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The advisory was issued based on the report of Philippine Embassy in Greece on the increasing number of illegal recruitment cases of OFWs in Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/airport-trip-suitcases-movement-1503332\/\">(Pixabay photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned Filipinos working in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East against illegal recruitment of household service workers (HSWs) in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>POEA officer-in-charge Undersecretary Bernard Olalia issued Advisory No. 17 cautioning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the said nations and region since the number of cases of the illegal activity is reportedly increasing.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory was issued based on the report of Philippine Embassy in Greece on the increasing number of illegal recruitment cases of OFWs in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippine Embassy in Athens, Greece, informed the Filipino Community in Greece and Cyprus that there have been increasing cases of illegal recruitment of Filipinos overseas for deployment to Russia,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Embassy further cited that most are recruited from Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East as household workers and are often charged huge fees by illegal recruiters,\u201d the advisory added.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the POEA official noted that there is no visa category for HSWs and holders of tourist or commercial visas are not allowed to work in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no visa category in Russia for household service workers,\u201d Olalia said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolders of tourist or commercial visas are not allowed to work in Russia and improperly documented workers are subject to detention, fines, and deportation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned Filipinos working in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East against illegal recruitment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":143309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41444,41443,25026],"class_list":["post-143308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-illegal-recruitment-of-household-service-workers-hsws-in-russia","tag-ofws-warned-anew-vs-recruiters-offering-fake-jobs-in-russia","tag-philippine-overseas-employment-administration-poea","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}