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Philippine government cancels licenses of recruitment agencies

Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), Philippine News

InterAksyon.com means BUSINESS March 19, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — Attention overseas Filipino workers, the following is a list of recruitment agencies whose licenses to recruit and send workers abroad have been cancelled.  The list was taken from the records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration which issued final and executory orders against them, indicating respective […]

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Faraday speaking at the Toronto launch of Coalition for Migrant Workers Rights-Canada in November last year. (Philippine Reporter photo)

Lawyer Fay Faraday calls for action for migrant workers

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers

Vancouver, B.C. Noted lawyer speaks at Migrante Gala By Ted Alcuitas Noted constitutional and human rights lawyer Fay Faraday will speak at the Migrante B. C. gala fund-raising dinner on Friday, March 18 at the Holiday Inn on Broadway. The Toronto-based lawyer will speak on “Moving Forward Together: Building Migrant Worker Security” to critically assess

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Lucia Nenita Velasco was just waiting for her permanent residency. (Facebook image)

Caregiver dies in car-pedestrian accident-funds needed to bring her home

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP)

Vancouver,B.C. Friends and supporters start ‘abuloy’ thru Go Fund Me By Ted Alcuitas “It’s very hard to accept that the only box we are waiting for now would contain her remains,” says the son of Lucia Velasco who died last Tuesday (March 8, 2016) in a car-pedestrian accident in east Vancouver. The 51-year old Velasco

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Migrante BC: Statement on International Women’s Day

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Philippine News, Politics

MIGRANTE BC March 8, 2016 As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Migrante BC, a community-based organization committed to the protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of Filipino immigrants and migrant workers in British Columbia, stands in solidarity with the women in the Philippines and around the globe in their struggle against labour

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Franco Orr sentencing gets another delay

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP)

Vancouver, B.C. The man who was previously convicted of trafficking a Filipina caregiver from Hong Kong three years ago but won an appeal, is to appear in court on March 9 to set a date for his sentencing. The identity of the Filipina cannot be revealed due to a court publication ban. Franco Orr, whose

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Caregiver still waiting 17 years to bring family

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP)

Toronto 17 years and still waiting – a caregiver’s elusive dream By Ted Alcuitas She will be 61 next month – 17 years after she arrived in Canada as a caregiver but she is still not reunited with her family, a problem caused by a bungling immigration bureaucracy, according to a Toronto Star story. She

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Calgary temporary worker faces deportation

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers

Jose Osano (in Facebook photo) is recovering from a stroke but faces deportation. Calgary, Alberta Sick temporary worker faces deportation Jose Osano, a temporary foreign worker in Calgary, is facing deportation despite being hospitalized following a stroke last Dec. 11, according to the crowd funding site GoFundMe. The 46-year old father of three who hails

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Man who trafficked caregiver gets reprieve

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers

Franco Yiu Kwan Orr is shown outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, BC. May 30, 2013. Photograph by: Nick Procaylo , PNG Vancouver Franco Orr dismisses lawyer, gets reprieve By Ted Alcuitas The man who was convicted in a landmark case in 2013 for trafficking a caregiver from Hong Kong to Vancouver won another reprieve

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Human trafficker pleads guilty to lesser offence

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers

Franco Orr outside court at his 2013 trial Photo: Arlen Redekop, Province The man who was convicted of trafficking a Filipina caregiver has pleaded guilty to a lesser offence, The Province reports. In 2013, Franco Yiu Kwan Orr was the first person in Canada to be convicted of human trafficking under provisions of the Immigration

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Immigration scammer Imelda Fronda Saluma gets six years

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers

Imelda Fronda Saluma Immigration scammer gets six years Toronto A 47-year old divorced mother of three was sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding victims more than $2.3 million. Imelda “Mel” Fronda Saluma, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was also ordered to pay restitution of $1.5 million to her victims. “I am unsure

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