Embassy of Philippines in London
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| Notes | Beware of emailed job offers for childcare and other similar positions in the UK. These are all frauds. • Since November 2008, no visas are granted for household workers from outside Europe. Work visas are only granted for highly-skilled positions, most of which require university degrees. • No legitimate employment agency in the UK requires you to pay them any money. All fees would be paid by the employer. • No legitimate employment agency in the UK uses a free email address from Yahoo, Gmail, or similar services. • No legitimate employment agency in the UK uses a telephone number that begins with +4470 (070). These are non-geographic numbers available to anyone in the world. • No legitimate business requests payment via Western Union. |
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please email me at muguroc@gmail.com and tell me whether this agency is for legit in the U.K i was referred there by one MR. ARMSTRONG GRANT and he said that it will help me get my work permit plus visa but they are charging me 500 pounds to process the documents...please get back to me
Hi. I would just like to verify if this is legit. I applied a position of cashier in mercure hotel in London, and i believe someone from HR contacted me to fill out documents. I did, and here are their replies:
Dear ,
We are satisfied with the caliber of your CV and your answers to our interview questions, Attached to this mail is a contract of Agreement cum Appointment Letter that you are expected to go through, sign and date at the bottom if you are satisfied with the terms of Contract. Thereafter you are to send us a scanned copy of the signed Contract for the purpose of filing and other office protocols.
It should be noted that the Hotel will take care of the charges for your Visa, Flight Ticket and other travel cost but work permit will be taken care of by the employee as stated in the contract. Employee will be contacted by our travel agency after contract has been signed and details will be given concerning your travel. First salary bonus will be sent to employee's account as soon as all travel detail are finished and employee is ready to come to the United Kingdom. We also want to encourage you to read the contract carefully before signing.
We will encourage you to contact the travel agent working with the Hotel so that you can get your Valid UK Visa, Work Permit Paper and the rest of your Travel Documents in due time and you get to the UK before the date of your resumption. You are to contact to Travel agent via mail sending a scanned copy of the signed contract to them also and passport too.You are only paying for your work permit first when you contact the U.K Travel Agency. Note: no salary deduction from applying from your work permit.
The email of the travel agent is ukvisaapplicationlinkform001@gmail.com we CONGRATULATE you as our latest worker and we hope that you will repay the faith we have in you. After signing kindly send your Valid passport to our agency email.
Best Wishes
Call : +447045744382 - +447024016305
Signed
Management
Ms Georgiana PUSNAVA
Mercure Hotel.
Here is the attached docs for the Contract of Agreement.
MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL
1A Lexham Gardens, London W8 5JJ, United Kingdom.
CONTRACT OF AGREEMENT
1.0 APPOINTMENT LETTER
After our recruitment exercise, we found you (JOSEPH A. SARZA) qualified and fit to fill our vacant job position. Hence, we seek to employ your services as stated in the following terms and conditions.
2.00 JOB LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION.
The job is at MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL. You are to report to the HR Manager upon arrival for other logistics. Your duties will be explained and assigned to you on your arrival by your Head of Department.
3.00 SALARY, ALLOWANCES & BENEFITS
3.10 BASIC MONTHLY SALARY: 2,550GBP (Two Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty GBP) a month. Salary shall be liable to Increments with time and employees' official promotions as judged by Employer. Any bonus or declarations of bonus shall be made at the sole and absolute discretion of the Hotel. Employee shall also be entitled to over-time allowance if their work time exceeds the official working hours.
3.11 BENEFITS: Medical Insurance is free for the employee and the employee is entitled to travel and relocation allowance which must be paid by the employer before resumption of duty.
4.0 JOB PROCEEDING.
You will be expected to resume your job as a CASHIER at the MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL on the 23/08/2014. Work time shall be 44 hours a week (8hrs a day) for the four (4) years contract term. Contract renewal depends on Employee’s performance and Employer’s discretion.
5.00 LEAVE PERIOD.
Employees are entitled to 1 months leave period, which can be taken once in a year. Employee will receive 2,440GBP take home for each leave period. You must notify the Company and/or your immediate supervisor as soon as possible if you are unable to work for medical reasons.
6.0 FEEDING & ACCOMODATION.
Employee is expected to reside at the MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL. Family package status is available for employee that wishes to Re-locate with Family. Employee is entitled to take meals free of charge at the general staff canteens. Dietary options, customized cooks and dieticians are available options.
NOTE: The management of the MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL is going to charge you for the payment of work permit and employee will also be charged for accommodation registration so that they can reside at the company's housing estate.
7.00 MEDICAL EXPENSES.
Employer will provide the employee with comprehensive health care for the term of contract, and follow-on care for injuries suffered during the term of contract for employee and family.
8.00 ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
Recreational/Sports facilities shall be made available at the disposal of all employees with no expenses to be incurred. Laundry and dry cleaning service will be made available to employee by the hotel’s laundry and dry cleaning unit on request.
9.0 TRAVEL PLANS/ RE-LOCATION.
For Expatriates, Free UK flight ticket will be issued to the employee by the employer as soon as the employee sends copy of a UK work permit paper to the employer. This is in line with the expatriate statuary law of the UK in compliance with the U.N. Terrorism Act. However, for expatriate who do not have valid UK Visa and Work Permits Papers, are to make contact with our official travel agent here in UK for the procurement of Visa and Work Permit processing code and approval letter. It should be noted that your employer will take care of charges for your Visa, flight tickets and any other travel costs excluding the charges for a UK Work Permit Paper which should be taken care by employee.
All UK based employees' are to report personally to our office in England with their documents (including this contract document) for identification, signing, and collection of hard copy of their contract documents.
10.0 AGREEMENT OF CONTRACT
This agreement supersedes and replaces all previous contracts, written and verbal, between the parties and constitutes the entire agreement between the parties. This Agreement is constructed in accordance with SECTION 6 OF UK EMPLOYMENT ACT BILL 2000. A single arbitrator agreed upon by the parties shall decide any dispute between the parties arising out of this agreement.
Please confirm your acceptance of the above terms and conditions by signing and returning to us scanned copy of this Letter within three days from the date of this Letter as failure to do so in due time means you have declined our job offer.
I HEREBY ACCEPT THIS JOB OFFER WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS STATED THEREIN
EMPLOYEE’S NAME: ……………………………………………………………………………….
EMPLOYEE’S SIGNATURE: ………………………………….
DATE……………………………
Date: 07/08/2014
MS GEORGIANA PUSNAVA
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
MERCURE LONDON KENSINGTON HOTEL
Please verify and inform me if this is legit. thank you.
same rau crisa..yang lily bailey rin ang tao na nkkachat ko
beware this guys!
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NOTES Beware of emailed job offers for childcare and other similar positions in the UK. These are all frauds.
• Since November 2008, no visas are granted for household workers from outside Europe. Work visas are only granted for highly-skilled positions, most of which require university degrees.
• No legitimate employment agency in the UK requires you to pay them any money. All fees would be paid by the employer.
• No legitimate employment agency in the UK uses a free email address from Yahoo, Gmail, or similar services.
• No legitimate employment agency in the UK uses a telephone number that begins with +4470 (070). These are non-geographic numbers available to anyone in the world.
• No legitimate business requests payment via Western Union.
Huwag po kayo maniniwala sa lahat ng mga yan. Nag post po ako rito upang malaman niyo. Biktima na po ako sa SCAM nakapagpadala na ako ng pera. Si Laura Andon at Robinson Ollie ang employer ko. If u want to know more just send me to my email jessicashyia_03@yahoo.com
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Dear maa'm&Sir, I just want to know if this is true, Someone inviting to apply in the UK GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP WORKING VISA. She said thier is company hiring in london for office cleaner.then she said I must have a 500 $ for the processing of my visa. I ask her what are the qualification, she said no qualification for office cleaner and the processing for my visa is just 8 weeks but if I'm not ready they will extend my visa untill I am ready. Pls I need your answer if this is true or just a scam. Pls email me at anneenriquez90@gmail.com..thank you
Inutil ang site n to.....sa dami ng nag ttanong ni isa walang sumsagot pilipinong walang malasakit sa kapwa pilipino....na atasan na mahuhusay tulog din pala
Description: I'm Felicia Prince from London,U.K and my husband is a Business man and football manager,i travel a lot.I have 2 kidS.That is why am seeking for the above post for you applicant.our kids jane and cole are aged 4 and 6.I am in need of the following staffs in my London Mansion. SALARY/WAGES ARE BELOW. AU PAIR/NANNY:£3000 Monthly,weekly allowance (220) DRIVER:£3000 0 Monthly weekly allowance (240) You shall have a private accommodation with furnished bedroom and also a private bathroom.A Fixed Telephone and Internet. Send us your references or resume, Should the outcome be positive, we would send you an email and discuss travel arrangements in due course of which I would be of generous assistance to you.EMAIL ME AT (niorukojesu@gmail.com )
I wanted to confirmed if this is Legit or Not? Thank you
Is it scam?
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