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Ako Si Jamie
14th April 2018, 15:58
She rarely had enough sleep due to being on call 24 hours and rarely was given a day off. Paid the equivalent of a measly £1.40 per hour.

Awarded $827k (approx £580k). :xxgrinning--00xx3:


http://usa.inquirer.net/11147/filipina-domestic-worker-wins-828k-back-wages-employers
Arthur Little
15th April 2018, 14:43
*Awarded $827k (approx £580k). :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://usa.inquirer.net/11147/filipina-domestic-worker-wins-828k-back-wages-employers

:Jump: ... *and well~earned ... :yeahthat:'s the kind of news I love reading about!
grahamw48
15th April 2018, 15:35
Good.

It makes me angry reading about all these ****holes who regard Filipinos as dumb slaves, to be used and abused. :mad:
Arthur Little
15th April 2018, 15:48
Good.

It makes me angry reading about all these ****holes who regard Filipinos as dumb slaves, to be used and abused. :mad:

:cwm23: ... likewise!
Tawi2
15th April 2018, 16:23
Don't hate the players, hate the game. The PI has long been regarded as a source of lowly paid cheap labour.
Arthur Little
15th April 2018, 17:36
Don't hate the players, hate the game. The PI has long been regarded as a source of lowly paid cheap labour.

Sadly, :iagree: that has been the case for far too long, hitherto ... but, hopefully - with enough publicity given to stories highlighting the happy outcome for the lady named in Jamie's link - shoddy treatment/abuse of Filipino overseas domestic workers will, eventually, become a thing of the past.
Ako Si Jamie
15th April 2018, 18:09
Don't hate the players, hate the game. The PI has long been regarded as a source of lowly paid cheap labour.

If you had a job and wasn't being properly paid and you needed the money for an aviation caper or a plane ticket to Uzbekistan for example I'd bet you'd be the first to holler. :bigcry::airline::wink:

Think you need to stop hanging around Thai swimming pools with Iain Duncan-Smith. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:toocoffee:

My guess is you're now going to change the subject and tell us a story about....um....Uzbekistan. :icon_lol:
Ako Si Jamie
15th April 2018, 20:36
Another Pinay that was mistreated. :NoNo:

Had boiling water poured over her. No prizes for guessing which part of the world this happened in.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/13/18/scalded-by-employer-abused-pinay-in-saudi-comes-home-after-4-years
Tawi2
16th April 2018, 00:22
Nope, no Uzbekistan tale, just saying the PI has always been known as a source of cheap labour alongside Bangladesh, Pakistan etc., in places like the Middle East, :smile: and I would certainly never holler about my personal situation,I had a terrible start to life,it was what it was.
Ako Si Jamie
16th April 2018, 15:30
Yet another incident - again in Saudi.

Forced to drink bleach. :NoNo:

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/news/650187/pinay-helper-in-serious-condition-after-being-forced-to-drink-bleach-in-saudi-arabia/story/
Tawi2
16th April 2018, 16:08
Just been for dinner with an ex-pat living in Thailand who has made a lot of cash working in the UAE. He told me lots of Filipinas marry Arab men. One guy he knows has 4 wives, 3 of them are Filipinas. They have I think 15 kids between them.
grahamw48
16th April 2018, 19:09
Well, a lot of Muslim Filipinas do work there of course. No doubt they are accustomed to living in the stone age.
Ako Si Jamie
18th April 2018, 00:22
Just been for dinner with an ex-pat living in Thailand who has made a lot of cash working in the UAE. He told me lots of Filipinas marry Arab men. One guy he knows has 4 wives, 3 of them are Filipinas. They have I think 15 kids between them.

No doubt some of them will be regretting it.