British detained in the Philippines

[aphrodite78]

Sorry aphrodite I just read this,its NOT a recruitment agency

Taylors is not a RECRUITMENT AGENCY, we do not hire but instead we assist them in getting proper documentations needed to attain better employment opporunity abroad.

But I do know a "Talent trainer" who used to recruit girls for japan,train them to sing and dance then pass them on to a legal recruiter in manila,but the talent-trainer was already commiting an offence as by training and promising them a job in Japan he could be construed as an illegal recruiter,its complex as you know Didnt the lawyer immediately contact the british embassy as soon as a british national was arrested

i agree with you there, they are all over. some talent-trainer or a "scout" also charge a fee in referring them to the recruitment agency and yes they should be prosecuted. i am just baffled with the situation. it is really complicated and didn't know that you could place/recruit and charge a fee and still you are not called a recruitment agency (maybe a consultancy agency?). it's really complicated

[Tawi2]

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[britishdetained]

Consultancy agencies often are a cover or guise for illegal recruiters sadly aphrodite I found charlene selling her household goods on Sulit,why not just use the bond instead There are a few indescrepancies in the story,charlene is your name Taylor or Caballes theres always two sides to every story Heres a link for legal aid in Pinas,good luck

http://forums.gov.ph/thread.asp?rootID=120659&catID=23

Actually we do not have bond money as that is only for a recruitment agency...we only assist on the visa, even my company's money was taken by the police. all our accounts were confiscated then the next day all atm accounts were emptied also

[aphrodite78]

i agree with you there, they are all over. some talent-trainer or a "scout" also charge a fee in referring them to the recruitment agency and yes they should be prosecuted. i am just baffled with the situation. it is really complicated and didn't know that you could place/recruit and charge a fee and still you are not called a recruitment agency (maybe a consultancy agency?). it's really complicated

when i said prosecuted i didn't meant you charlene it's those who are promising job order but there isn't really one and still manage to charge a fee, i hope you get the help you need, it must be really hard and devastating specially you got kids. i am not in the position to give you an advice or judge you. i am sure you really wanted to help filipinos in securing better life by helping them to find a job in abroad. i hope you get thru this, the problem is our system in the philippines is really complicated and there is a lot of loop holes.

[Tawi2]

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[aphrodite78]

More than 400 aspiring Filipino migrants complained to authorities that they were fooled by a recruitment agency owned by a British national and his Filipino wife.

i didn't know that it was a lot. thanks tawi2 for that.

[Tawi2]

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[aphrodite78]

she told me that they are charging her “applicants” 6T plus for the fees for the classes – preparation classes for the IELTS, TOEIC, etc.
Are they a technical vocational school,a review centre?If so did they have a licence from the DECS or TESDA

they call it review centre we use to run one but it is inside the recruitment agency so we called it an in-house review center as it is only provided for applicants who are being processed (with employment offer), it is free of charge and our foreign client pays for the trainers' wages etc, they didn't require us special license or accreditation for that. that was 5 years ago (gosh i feel quite old saying that), not too sure now if you need to have an accreditation to run a review center. frankly speaking the fact there is money involved there should be a governing body responsible for overseeing it.

[britishdetained]

It is one or two isnt it like I said,always more than one side to any story,you just got to look a little harder for the other side sometimes

I am the sister of CHARLENE TAYLOR, one of those being accused for large scale illegal recruitment. I would like to point out that there are some unverified “facts” from this report, and being a journalist myself, I find this very disturbing and unfair on my family, especially on my sister who is due to deliver her baby anytime this week. When I came home on February 2009, I came to visit her “new office and new business” in San Mateo, Rizal. Based on my queries with my sister, she put up the “business” late last year only (last quarter of the year), and you could further check this by obtaining a copy of her business license, which also happens to be posted in their office in Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal. Thus, to say that the “victims” have paid her one year ago, is an outright lie.
Also, from my queries with my sister, she told me that they are charging her “applicants” 6T plus for the fees for the classes – preparation classes for the IELTS, TOEIC, etc. Both my sister and my brother-in-law, Kevin Taylor, also conduct the classes. She further told me that they are not charging any placement fees, since as I have reiterated to her before, there is no way she could charge such fees since her business is NOT A RECRUITMENT AGENCY. I am an OFW myself, and I believe that it is a great crime to do illegal recruitment. I have vehemently expressed this sentiment to my sister during my vacation in February, and she explained to me the nature of her business. Honestly, I do not know the extent of the applicants’ complaints: n time, and if they are indeed illegal recruiters, I don’t see any point why they do not need to charge for placement fees and pay the government with taxes monthly. If it is indeed true that Ms. Marie came out to help the victims, then how come she spent few more months in the office and gained from her position? She is my sister’s immediate assistant and she knows a lot on the nature of the business. In fact, she often oversees and covers for my sister whenever my ate is out of town. How come that she suddenly became the victim’s ally now? If Ms. Marie could recall, in February 2009, my sister had some issues with one of her agents, who “recruited” some people and charged them around 10T, without my sister knowing it. My sister filed a complaint on that person and............................so it goes on

Actually that is why we also complained against the ABSCBN as they were saying we have 400 applicants wnd that we already existed a year now I got a permit as well from the TESDA about my review center and we are Afflitialed with Hopkins International for the TOEIC test. Imagine all the permits I got are legitimate