Labor cases eyed vs Navotas fishing firm
Sunday, July 24, 2011
THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) is looking at the possibility of filing numerous labor-related cases against a fishing company based in Navotas City after receiving a complaint from 38 of its workers.
In a statement Sunday, Dole Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said they are already looking at filing illegal recruitment, human trafficking, and child labor cases against the owner and officials of Pesca Maharlika Marine Resources Inc.
“Such employers, who thrives and profits on the blood, sweat, and tears of common, unsuspecting workers, deserve no mercy,” said Baldoz.
Basing from the report of Dole-Regional Office 7 Director Exequiel Sarcauga, Pesca Maharlika Marine Resources Inc. has recruited and employed 250 fishermen-workers from all over the country, mostly from Central Visayas, for a five-trip, 10-month deep-sea fishing expedition near international waters off Palawan that started in July 2010 and ended in April 2011.
The regional labor official added that the company also recruited eight workers who were minors and who have not been issued Fish Worker’s Identification Cards by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR),
The identification cards are required under the International Labor Organization-International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour Deep Sea Fishing Project 2000-2001.
The complaint added that the workers have narrated the inhuman conditions of work they experienced during the expedition, such as having to work from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. with only one to two hours of meal and rest periods, as well as not having any diving gears except eye goggles.
“What was unfortunate was that five of the 250 fishermen have died during the deep-sea fishing expedition,” Sarcauga revealed.
Sarcauga’s report also said that the fishermen-workers were cheated out of the profits of the expedition.
“During the recruitment and before they sailed, they were promised 20 percent share of the gross sales, but despite gross revenues of over P47 million on 25,000 tubs of fish haul, the workers didn’t get anything because almost all of the expenses of the expedition were deducted from their 20 percent share of gross revenues,” said Sarcauga.
The labor chief, then, said she has instructed Dole Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac not to hesitate in filing the necessary cases against the employers of the fishermen.
“Dole will not hesitate to run after them to stop them on the tracks of their nefarious trade,” said Baldoz.
The case is currently undergoing conciliation-mediation conferences at the Dole Field Office in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. (AMN/Sunnex)
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2011/07/24/labor-cases-eyed-vs-navotas-fishing-firm-168764
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