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Philippine labour sheriff lays down the law

BY MATA PRESS SERVICE

Bernardino Julve Phil Consular Officer-in-Charge of Labour 009 Don’t let the mile-wide smile and the easy charm fool you — there’s a new sheriff in town, and he means to set a few things straight.

Forty years after opening its first Philippine Overseas Labour Office in Canada, Manila has at last installed its second labour attache in a country that boasts — conservatively — some 800,000 Filipinos, with nearly 90,000 officially residing in British Columbia.

"I’m here, my office is here and there are rules now," says Vancouver-based Bernardino Julve, Western Canada’s new Philippine Consular Officer-In-Charge of Labour, the man the community has already dubbed the "guardian angel" of Filipino workers.

"Given the reports I’ve read, there are some concerns about the situation here in B.C.," adds Julve, a lawyer-turned-career diplomatic, who arrived in Vancouver following similar assignments in Rome and Hong Kong.

With the ink still drying on B.C.’s own memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Philippine government, Julve is here to oversee the implementation of a series of labour agreements between Canada’s western provinces and The Philippines.

The freshly-minted MOUs, designed, says Julve, "for an increased, systematic, orderly and ethical import of our workers to Canada," are now in effect in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and B.C., with Alberta — home to 79 per cent of last year’s Filipino influx in Canada — expected to come on line with its agreement in the coming weeks.

The agreements provide for the recognition and enforcement in Canada of Philippine regulations that have been on Manila’s books since 2006, regulations that stipulate employer responsibilities in contractual agreements with imported Filipino workers. (See: Sidebar)

While the two-year, B.C.-Philippine memorandum of understanding was drafted to speed-fill the provincial labour shortage with skilled workers from The Philippines, Julve’s work in his new POLO office at the Philppine Consulate General in Vancouver involves the welfare of workers, just as much as it does the affairs of state.

Perhaps more so — Bernie Julve is likely the only guardian angel with a Yahoo e-mail account.

Julve lights up one of his trademark smiles, and raises his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"The time I spend the most is answering e-mails," he says. "I will be up til midnight answering e-mails, and I have to answer them, I have to make sure people have the proper information and know that we are here and care."

Unscrupulous Canadian recruitment agencies, says Julve, have been cashing in on the acute labour shortage in Western Canada — and Filipino workers’ desperate desire for a better life in Canada — in violation of Philippine and Canadian regulations pertaining to labour migration.

Where once these agencies preyed on women shuttled into Canada under Ottawa’s well-established live-in caregiver program, Julve says new waves of labourers, service-sector workers and even Philippine professionals are now being victimized by shady recruiters.

And in Western Canada’s boom provinces, where Filipinos are being dispatched to B.C.’s 2010 Olympics construction projects and Alberta’s oil-rush tar sands, the problems are particularly acute.

Exorbitant and illegal "placement fees" and "off-shore" recruitment are two practices Julve says he plans to crack down on.

His biggest headache, he says, are Canadian-based or Canadian-contracted agencies that continue to dodge Philippine and Canadian regulations by recruiting Filipino workers in third-party countries, notably Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, where the targeted workers have often been working for years.

"Direct employers, like the big health agencies or construction firms, we don’t worry about these employers," he says, during a meeting in the boardroom of the Philippine consulate in downtown Vancouver.

"What we do worry about is these mom-and-pop agencies, these third-party agencies that will send people overseas to do recruitment. This is where the problems occur.

"But they are now slowly feeling the pinch. They know we are here now ready to throw the books at them. It will take time; we can’t work miracles."

Filipino labour activist Boni Barcia says the arrival of labour attache Bernie Julve has been a long time coming.

But Barcia, a B.C. Hospital Employee Union executive and a founding member of B.C.’s Temporary Foreign Workers Committee, suggests that it will take more than one man to stop the "abuses and exploitation" of Filipino workers in Western Canada.

"When they arrive here we don’t even know where they are or what they’re getting paid," says Barcia, who met Philippine Labour Secretary Arturo Brion when he ratified the B.C.-Philippine MOU in Vancouver earlier this year.

"I questioned why he signed this MOU," says Barcia. "And his answer was, ‘Whether we sign it or not, the people in our community will try to go abroad anyway, it is better that we have some regulations.’

"But to me, this is just cheap labour policy," adds Barcia. "This abuse is documented and it has to stop, we need to draft a policy to change the immigration law to protect these workers."

Wayne Peppard, executive director of The British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council, an umbrella organization for B.C.’s trade unions, says the biggest challenges Filipino workers face are accessing support, learning what their rights are and exercising those rights without fear of retaliation from their employer.

He too believes the Philippine labour attache in Vancouver has a tough road ahead, suggesting Julve may have a hard time balancing the interests of the notoriously corrupt Philippine government against those of its lowly migrant workers in Canada.

"Some of those (labour) brokers have close ties with the government," says Peppard. "Remember, The Phillipines is the largest, per capita, country exporting migrant workers. The $12 billion in remittances is too important to the Phillipine economy to rock the boat."

But as Bernie Julve pores over the e-mails he receives each day — typically 30 a night — he has come to understand the abuses suffered by Filipino workers at the hands of unscrupulous recruiters and employers.

"We’ve heard about unscrupulous individuals who would recruit Filipinos but the actual employer is nowhere to be found," he says. "The border authorities call the employer to check and there is no one there and the poor worker is sent back home."

Typically, he adds, that person has borrowed and paid recruiters $7,000, $10,000, even $12,000 in placement fees for a dream job in Canada.

Often, he says, the employer specified on the worker’s work permit will release the employee without cause after just a few days. Facing deportation, that worker is newly victimized by recruiters demanding a new fee for another job prospect.

Meanwhile, there is debt to pay for "management fees" and airfare, and new charges for meals and accommodation.

"These workers are milked back home and milked here," laments Julve.

"It’s just like clinging to a sword. You may lose your fingers, but you may recupurate and find something good."

Desperate, many of these Filipino workers become indentured, or slip into the underground economy, working below minimum wage in less than ideal conditions.

Julve says The Philippines allows for the collection of a reasonable recruitment fee, or placement fee, of no more than one month’s salary.

"But if the country of destination does not allow that collection, and the collection is absolutely prohibited within Canada, then we enforce those laws, we’re very strict about that," he adds.

The Philippines, says Julve, takes the plight of its Overseas Foreign Workers very seriously. Just last month, the Philippine Department of Labour and Employment issued a warning to Pinoy caregivers against employers in Canada who are not complying with needed requirements. The advisory instructed OFW’s to ensure required conditions are "explicitly stipulated" before signing any contract with prospective employers.

"We’re trying to implement the guidelines but we’re at a loss trying to regulate and monitor these unscrupulous agencies through our MOUs," admits Julve. "We only hear of their existence here when the workers come into problems.

"We get depressed, but we have to hang on."

So serious is the problem, says the new ‘sheriff’ in town, that he’s bringing in a ‘deputy’ next week. Welfare officer, or well-off, Jay Javenes is arriving from Manila to assist Julve in dealing with the complaints and problems including adjustment and personal issues of Filipinos who have come to B.C. and Western Canada in search of a brighter future.

Julve says more well-offs may follow as more Filipinos arrive to participate in the "heightened and continued economic activity" in B.C.

"We’re a labour exporting country . . . and from our point of view, this is a relatively new market," he says.

"And what you do with a new market is develop it, nurture it and maintain it."

New Regulations for Imported Filipino Workers:

The new labour regs for overseas Filipino workers have been on the books in The Philippines since 2006. But until now, the Standard Contract of Employment submitted to Service Canada for the issuance of a Labour Market Opinion, the precursor to a job in Canada for a foreign worker, typically didn’t contain these requirements.

The Philippine Department of Labour and Employment, which oversees 35 Philippine Overseas Labour Offices around the world, including Bernie Julve’s Vancouver office, is now demanding these regulations be followed.

They include an addendum to the employment contract stipulating that the employer: Be responsible for the cost of two-way transport to and from the place of origin, provide health coverage for the worker until provincial health insurance kicks in, terminate employment only for just cause; and, in the case of work-related deaths, be responsible for the repatriation of remains.

THE PROCESS:

BEFORE . . .

• Letter of Canadian job offer

• Labour Market Opinion

• Basic contract signed

• Contract and LMO submitted to Embassy outside Canada

• Visa issued, or not

NOW . . .

• Letter of Canadian job offer

• Labour Market Opinion

• Contract signed by employer and employee with the new addendum and then registered and verified with the POLO in Vancouver

• Package submitted to Embassy outside Canada

• Visa issued, or not

• Pre-departure Orientation Seminar conducted by the Philippines Overseas Employment Administration based in Manila

• Exit pass issued, or not

Julve "Bernie" Bernardino

Hails from: The small town of Carrascal in the province of Surigao de Sur, which is rich in iron, timber and marine resources.

Academics: Holds an undergraduate degree in History, a law degree from the University of The Philippines and a Masters degree in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of The Philippines in Manila.

Career: Worked with the Department of Labour beginning in 1978; in 1982 went in to private law practice; in 1989 returned to the Department of Labour rising through the ranks to Assistant Secretary of Operations in Manila

Diplomatic Service: In 2002, he was posted to Rome as The Philippines’ labour attache, followed by a six year stint in Hong Kong in the same role before moving to Canada.

Family: Married to Carol Davila, with whom he has five children.

8,500 - number of Canadian work visas issued to Filipinos in the first half of 2008

10 - average number of Filipino employment contracts processed by POLO Vancouver each week

20 - the highest number of contracts processed on a busy day at the POLO Vancouver office.

75 - the percentage of B.C.’s 88,100 Filipinos born outside Canada

20 - the percentage of The Philippines’ economy propped up by remittances, or money sent home, from Filipinos overseas

95 - the percentage of care givers in Canada who are Filipino

98 - the percentage of those caregivers who are women

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Mon, 02/01/2010 - 08:41 — Anonymous

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Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:55 — Anonymous

That's the reason most

That's the reason most filipinos prefer to file their application to Canada in other countries, because its much faster and cheaper considering they do not need to go to POEA and pay all the fees...sad for those who are still stuck in this country and had to deal with the corruption and the incompetent of "most" people in the goverment.

The POLO is really the height of stupidity ...considering that the OFW is the lifeblood of our economy its really beyond comprehension why would they want to to put this process which will lead to additional months for the filipino worker to stay in the country without a job, instead of starting a new life in Canada and to send the all important remittance to his family in the Philippines.

Yes the Filipino worker needs protection.....ironically from its goverment.

Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:53 — Anonymous

That's the reason most

Yes the Filipino worker needs protection.....ironically from its goverment.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 22:29 — Anonymous

nanny agencies

I know a nanny agency who charge temporary workers a lot of money to come here. She is not paying TAX and all the transactions are under the table and the money is sent to the phils....guess who? Tell you the name of agency and owner next time.... I hope mahuli sya kasi kawawa workers grabeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Tue, 10/20/2009 - 01:31 — Anonymous

Immigrant Abuse!!

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Sat, 08/29/2009 - 14:54 — Anonymous

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Sat, 08/29/2009 - 04:59 — Anonymous

Thanks to NICEHEART ...they helped my family in the Phils

I am from Alberta, who helped my niece to come within 2 weeks from Hongkong...that's my dreamt to get my niece asap..and they fulfilled their duries with minimal fee only...even they deserved to get more...but they never get much from me.

Lindz

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 00:11 — Anonymous

More baqd comments to POLO

I am not generalizing all employers are not in favour of POLO's..I beleive you are the employer being treated well..but most of us here in ALBERTA never treated we'll ...that's why we refused to let the foreign workers not to come anymore...even they got already their visa...if they need job to Canada, Philippine govt should not give more difficulties to let them be victimizerd their RED TAPES and MONEY GENERATING SYSTEM I had somebody assigned their but they never issued receipt for verification...AND THEY GAVE CASH ..BUT WHY THEY DID'NT GIVE RECEIPT...

Fri, 08/28/2009 - 23:59 — Anonymous

POLO never HELPED ME and POLO being cursed not them ..

When I needed place to sleep while the Immigration officer took my passport...POLO never helped me..the NICEHEART offer me room and bought me to pray...I believe Niceheart is Blessed and POLO will be cursed ...and I believe ...you are thought cursing Niceheart ..but it's you who wrote being CURSED because you are not known and laCK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUTY THEIR SUCCESS...OR YOU WHO ARE THE ONE WHO RUN AWAY after NICEHEART HELPED YOU? JUST T5HINK ABOUT JUDAS...AFTER JESUS MADE YOU BELONBG ...BUT AT THE END..YOU STAND AS TRAITOR? THINKS ABOUT YOURSELF?

Fri, 08/28/2009 - 23:51 — Anonymous

I believe you are not known

I believe you are not known to the niceheart..those probably cursing niceheart are people whom never helped by them...and those who been helped are mot so grateful...where these POLO where I needed them when I was deported ande authenticated my employer's job offer..they never offered me room but the niceheart helped me...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:23 — Anonymous

Congratulations to Consular Officers Mr. Julve and Mr. Javines

Thank you for safe guarding the interest of our OFWs ang going out your way to protect them

For those who complain, we are sure you are the bad guys.

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 20:24 — Anonymous

Kudos to Mr. Julve and Mr. Jay Javines of Philippine Labor Offic

We would like to register our support to the Consular Officers of the Labor Office.

We know how tough is your job, Sirs.

Please be aware too of a husband and wife who are masquarading as nice people but it truth and reality they are evil!

How many Filipinos have they been scandalized if not humilated?

How we wish that the Canadian Government and the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, take a look of these two!

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 00:42 — Anonymous

The Canadian Govt rewarded this Two!

Just to let you know these two you are pointing brought people who contributed the economy to Canada,.,,not only foreign workers...but family who has qualification migrate to give more income to Canada..Just to let you know..that you need more knowledge about other people...Remember this word, if we judge others..it judges us...
Thank you for better understanding...

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 20:08 — Anonymous

I know Jay Javines and Bernie

I know Jay Javines and Bernie Julve too!

These guys helped me in finding work when i got sacked. These guys helped me file the necessary things at the Labor Standards Division.

Whoever wrote this post, I am sure is a person who got exposed by their clients of scamming!

wait when I get back in Manila, I will file an illegal recruitment against you guys !

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 20:04 — Anonymous

I know Jay Javines and Bernie

I know Jay Javines and Bernie Julve, they are the guys in the Labor Office who will go out their way for the protection of OFWs like me.

The way things written, it seems that the person who wrote this got an EVIL Heart, well, thats what they are.

Is it ethical to collect and collect monies even if Im the one who procured a job for my relative? Tell me Mr and Ms. Ethics?

Is it ethical to scandalize my relative for not paying you for an illegally collected fees?

C'mom. If you dont want carbage, we dont want carbage neither in North Vancouver nor in Kingsway.

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 19:46 — Anonymous

why attacked on the people

why attacked on the people manning the philippine labor office? why not those who collect exoberant monies under the guise of being a consultant? look at your self first before you post anything libelous.

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 21:54 — Anonymous

They attack the people at the

They attack the people at the labor office because these are the only people whom their victims can run to.

Watch out for these nice heart scammers! I paid CAD 5,000.00 for a pice of crap!

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 19:46 — Anonymous

why attacked on the people

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:52 — Anonymous

confidentail retainer agreement is none of your business

Requiring to get the confidential retainer agreement from workers just to issue the verification result to let the workers get a departure permit is noneof your jurisdiction...coz it's confidential..and need to be respected...You are the one playing the role to abuse the workers and making them hard to come to Canada...allowing relatives of workers hired to deal with employer and by passing the third representative are unethical doing of you and Jay...and asking workers to get the addendum signed by employer is shameful doing especially employer had third representative did already in behalf of the workers is enough...and need to send any relatives to verify..it's you who need to verify coz you are receiving verification fee...What's the use of that money we paid for verification? why need someone else to verify..that makes employer turned off on your office if you are not doing your part...better you close your office here coz you are not professionally doing the right job...

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 19:55 — Anonymous

we are the one who

we are the one who voluntraily showed the retainer agreement to the people whom you named aboved to expose your scamming ways!

you know who we are and we know who you are!

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:52 — Anonymous

confidentail retainer agreement is none of your business

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 20:39 — Anonymous

Im one of your clients who showed your retainer agreement

On my part, I showed the retainer agreement as I know it seems to be illegal.

Why will i be double charged? I have already paid you and now, you will collect again at the expense of my relative?

Shame on you! Better close your Office that the Labor Office who has the time to help and hear our grievances!

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 00:37 — Anonymous

i BELIEVE..IT'S NOT YOU A CLIENT...

On my part, who just recently helped by these people even accompanying me to get my work permit at port of entry..coz I relied to the expertise of these people ..I thank to them coz we managed o get it successfully with minimal fees...and much work for my family...instead of going back to the Phils..POLO need to be grateful to these company coz I was one being helped..rather thatn working hard from the PHils where you cannot helped to feed my family and will bring them after my 2 yrs contract..I AM SO GRATEFUL TO NICEHEART not to the govt of the PHILS..POLO should be humble and need not to attact these people..so that we will be blessed...soon I will testifying and I want that to post to their website..

My request from POLO and others who were helped...as I read the whole scenario here...POLO should exacly where you stand...instead helping one another....I am personally , as professor before in Phils .. need to give my hearfelt gratitude..and this compay is not SCAM...and I am a proof that I was recently helped... AND THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL AND CARING...THANK YOU...

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:52 — Anonymous

confidentail retainer agreement is none of your business

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:34 — Anonymous

COLLECTION OF VERIFICATION FEE but never verified the employer

I am a worker who went to your office expecting that the money we gave to JAY IS worth it..but was not coz we learned that our employer were never called by Jay and even you...we paid and asked for authentication of all the documents you required which are not relevant to my Immigration status..were not sent to us to the address we provided and we are working here in BC but you never send that...YOUR OFFICE HERE ARE NOTHING TO DO FOR US...IT'S BETTER YOU ARE NOT ARROUND and BROUGHT YOUR RED TAPE HERE..WE ARE SO TIRED OF THE RED TAPE FROM PHILS...SO PLEASE DONT BRIONG THIS GARBAGE HERE IN CANADA COZ WE HATE PHILIPPINES EVEN WE GREW AND STUDIED THERE...BUT NO FORTUNE AND PEACEFUL THERE..AND WE ARE IN CANADA NOW...WE DONT WANT PHILLIPPINE GARBAGE TO BE BROUGHT HERE ANYMORE...

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 19:59 — Anonymous

I am one of the workers who

I am one of the workers who have visited Mr. Julve and Mr. Jay, this thing written above is a crap. I know who wrote this as I am hounded by this person to get professional services from them.

To the consular officers manning the Labor Office, keep up the good work and protect as from scamming people like the one in Kingsway!!!!!!

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 00:59 — Anonymous

You should know who really a scam

It's Phils Govt office has a lot of scam..if it's in Canada..it's hard to do that...Is it because...one company has gut to clear out the role of that office...or just because the attitude of the one who was assigned in the office is still the same in the Phils.
That's I don't know about you guys...I don't mind you guys anyway....

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:25 — Anonymous

How efficient is POLO tin VANCOUVER to FILIPINO FOREIGN WORKERS

EMPLOYERS are not satisfy having you here in BC instead of helping your poor Filipino to come quicker to come to CANADA you are not actually emplementing the Book you are so proud to emplement..YOU MUST NOT supposed to be in my country coz you never issue the authenticated you asked from the workers the employer want to be here soon...
Much better you are not here in BC coz you are useless actually when foreign workers were laid off in the constuction industry ...you never play important role and the book you so proud is useless as well coz JAY just collected the verification fee but never issued receipt,..you just add more to the FRUSTRATION of FILIPINO ...better you step out to the country coz WE , BORN CANADIAN here will work out to the MP and to the govt to throw that regulation which are not efficient to the EMPLOYER...you just one sided and prioritized the workers ...what about the employer whp were screwed up by your people...YOU ARE NOTHING HERE WITH JAY JAVINES,,,

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 21:48 — Anonymous

I am a Canadian Employer who

I am a Canadian Employer who have visited the Philippinne Labor Office in Vancouver.

I met a fine gentleman there who assited me in faciltating the deployment of my caregiver. He patiently explained to me that what they are doing has nothing to do with Immigration but for purposes of protecting their nationals against illegal recruiters and nefarious individuals.

I cannot comprehend what the post above is all about : are you mad because you are one of these illegal recruiters or nefarious individuals?

Let me remind you that as a Canadian employer, I have nothing to do with you.

So please do not generalize.

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 19:52 — Anonymous

No wonder why the people are

No wonder why the people are cursing you. You are supposed to be with a NICE HEART! But look at what you are doing, you shamelessly parade it as if your are clean as the snow of Whistler. How many relatives and temporary foreign workers have you victimized? how many are these people whom you scandalized? now you have the guts to attack on people whose aim is to protect us from peoiple like you?

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 04:55 — Anonymous

People who has better understandng NEVER CURSED...

I am a doctor in Psychology here in the Phils being helped by Niceheart and ...CAN
HIGHLY RECOMMEND them to everybody..aside from helping landed LANDED WITH THEIR ASSOCIATES... they helped to built our qualifications to Canadian employers to make sure to expedite the process of our landed coz if we don't have professional connection to Canadian base...how would we able to acquire job right away if we don't have it?... I may suggest who thought this and made this comment need in dept research before to be judgemental...I am a living proof and I been researching also and I mostly believe the NICEHEART than the Phils govt...coz ..I don'nt have much research that POLO has good testimonies compare to this company..No OFFENCE..but's it's true...and Probably ..you Dont' have much better understanding and you never known that the company was been operating over 6 yrs and bought overe 100 people to settle and being helped ...and being grateful for them..And I am so Grateful for them coz thet were the one who helped me acquired my landed with my work permit. previously....and they deserved to be paid any amount due to them...coz this will help more Filipino like us to establish new life in Canada. And MANY THANKS TO THEM!!!!

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 00:46 — Anonymous

are you the one being helped by them?

I may believed you were the one being cursed..coz you run away after you were helped..Is that right//Ha!Ha!Ha!..PEOPLE who were cursed are people who took disadvantage their services they ffered and God has reward for them and you will be punished by your own faults...Are we working together? I may know who you are?

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 21:51 — Anonymous

nice heart,ey? hahahahahaha

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