The largest organization of licensed landbased recruitment agencies in the Philippines, the Philippine Association of Service exporters in the Philippines (PASEI), is against the implementation of a Recruitment and Manpower Deployment Contract (aka unified contract scheme ) being proposed by the Saudi National Recruitment Committee, (Sanarcom), a Saudi recruitment agency.

 

The said unified contract scheme would greatly affect the deployment process of overseas Filipino workers (OFWS) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and according to PASEI, would result to the exploitation of Pinoy workers. To describe how the proposed recruitment scheme will be a disadvantage to OFWS, PASEI used the term modern day slavery.

Victor E. Fernandez Jr, PASEI President said, “This unilateral imposition of the Sanarcom will result in an ‘involuntary servitude, leaving Sanarcom rich and OFWs exploited.” Read more.