Dammam city: Image by unjoshr via Flickr
A brief report from Dennis Carcamo of the Philstar news service indicates that Filipinos driving buses in Saudi Arabia are financially exploited.
John Monterona, representing the Filipino Imigrant workers' advocacy group Migrante, disclosed that thirty Filipino bus drivers had decried the alleged illegal charging of fees by the company that recruited them and by its tie-up firms in Manila.
The workers were among the 300 bus drivers of the Saudi Public Transport company based in the city of Dammam.
"They claimed that their recruiter agency charged them [a] huge placement fee that led them to get an onerous loan from various lending agencies,” Mr Monterona said in a statement.
The 30 drivers, recruited by PERT-CPM Manpower Exponents Co. Inc, had been on the job nearly four months.
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