Bayanihan Fort Saskatchewan has issued a warning about an immigration consultancy firm in the Philippines that has allegedly been offering bogus jobs in Canada.
TV5 reported that Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) administrator Hans Leo Cacdac was notified about GoWestJobs’ illegal recruitment activities.
“If you’d had dealings with this agency or know someone who has in Saskatchewan or Alberta be sure to report it to RCMP immediately. Illegal recruiter sila issuing fake employment contracts. Warn your relatives and friends back home,” said Bayanihan Fort Saskatchewan in an email to the Filipino community in Alberta Province.(p.e.n.)
Here’s the news report:
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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has issued a warning against GoWestJobs, an immigration consultancy firm the agency says is offering bogus jobs in Canada.
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said they were notified about GoWestJobs’ illegal recruitment activities by the Philippine Overseas Employment Office in Toronto, which cited the report of Eric Johansen, director of the Immigration Services Branch of the Ministry of the Economy in Saskatchewan, on the fraudulent job offers and labor market opinions from the company.
Cacdac said Johansen reported receiving complaints from Canadian employers that GoWest Jobs has been issuing employment contracts and LMO with forged signatures to Filipino applicants.
“All the foreign workers confirmed they paid GoWest Jobs for these employment contracts and LMO. The foreign workers stated they paid for and received the employment contracts and LMO from Rose Lising-Grey and Imelda Saluma,” Johansen said in his report.
He said several Filipino workers have inquired from a Saskatchewan employer, SRI Homes, if the employment contracts and LMOs they got from GoWest Jobs were genuine and the general manager of the firm confirmed his signature had been forged.
Employment and Social Development Canada also confirmed that the LMOs were not authentic.
Cacdac advised applicants who may have been issued fake documents by GoWest Jobs to execute an affidavit of complaint and submit these to the POEA so illegal recruitment cases against the firm.
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