International temporary and staffing!

She had to get a new desktop computer, and printer/fax machine and make sure a phone line was attached to the printer and fax machine. This is what she was told to get to keep her new office job to do at home. The company she was assigned to work for was located about twenty miles from her home but since she was called to work only a few hours during the day, she decided to work from home. She assumed this would save time on driving to the office and getting things set up at her desk to start work.

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Her husband freaked out when he discovered she spent $6500 on a new desktop computer with all the equipment and had to have a computer technician come to the house to install everything, which was another $800.?

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She had been at the company office for six months and she had only worked at least four weeks about four days a week, but the rest of the time was irregular, a few days here and a few hours at a time. The office persuaded her to get the new equipment, but she had to buy the equipment through them because they only used a certain kind of desktop, fax machine and printer.

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The office where she worked was getting a big kickback on the home office equipment she bought. She had thought by having everything at home she was going to get more work. She was mistaken.

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The company office was not who signed her paycheck. It was a company called E-technology Company, which is in India. They were the people who had an office job advertised through their company and this woman responded to the advertisement for office work. So originally the office job was for local employees, but the paycheck came from India. Meaning that the temporary agency from India oversaw the whole operation.

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The office closed shop about five months later and the woman was left paying $6500 for the at-home computer and equipment. The home computer should have cost around $4500 but since the office required a specific brand it cost her more.

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Another gentleman was informed of a position for a pharmacy technician. He went in and applied at this pharmacy and found out he could start work right away at this pharmacy located in a quaint strip mall. Everything seemed fine at first. He noticed that more customers were coming to the back door for their prescriptions instead of the front door. He also noticed that quite a few customers spoke more Chinese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, etc. than English. He felt fine with this since he also spoke Vietnamese and Taiwanese.

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What was wrong was that some of the medicines given to patients were written in Chinese on the prescription bottles. He felt they should have also been written in the English language for family to make sure the patient has the right medicine for the ailments.

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He also found out that some of the medicines being given were coming from Chinese doctors and had Chinese herbs in them. Some of these herbs are not allowed in the US. What was also alarming was that the pharmacy was giving illicit narcotics to patients.

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He thought that since it took a long time to get this job, he would stay but as time went on, he wanted to quit, and he did. The agency that hired him found out he quit, and he received an angry phone call from them telling him off. He didn’t appreciate it. But he found out that the agency that hired him was in China, not the US.

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He had thought, why would a pharmacy in the US, hire a company in China to hire local pharmacy technicians unless the pharmacy was doing something illegal?

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He received his answer when there was a police raid on the property about a month later. The lesson learned he did not want to get any more phone calls about employment from overseas agencies disguised as US staffing companies.

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When he tried to contact the staffing company that had a PO box and an unlisted phone number in the US, he received a non-existed phone number and the PO box had ceased to exist.

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These are two examples of temporary/staffing companies' horror stories that have surfaced in the last few years of companies that are from China, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Vietnam that have set up shop in the US. And employed American workers to take jobs that have proven to be illegal, swindles, etc. American workers are left broke; some have been arrested because the authorities thought they were part of the rue.

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One gentleman said that the Better Business Bureau closed the company he was working at one morning and he was never informed that the office was closing the following week. The company owed him two weeks of pay that he never received. He had to go to the Employment Development Department to file for unemployment, which he could not get because the staffing company that gave him the job was in China. And they did not take social security out of his check and the office was operating under foreign laws. So, he lost unemployment and did not have social security taken out for his future. He said this was the last time he accepted a job to work at a local company that was recommended through a staffing company.

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One woman went into a temporary agency and was called in about an administrative position. She accepted and was told her pay would be a certain amount. When she finally received her paycheck, it was a lot less than she had expected and she was told by the temporary agency. That her pay was less because she did a poor job, she found out later that the agency had taken more than their fair share of her money and the agency did this quite often to other employees of this office.

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She wanted to complain to the Labor board but found out the head office of this temporary agency was in Vietnam. At the Labor board she could file but there was not much she could do since this agency would pick up relocating most of the time. The agency was found to defraud people out of money all the time.

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The best advice from a Labor attorney is if you are contacted by a temporary/staffing agency, he said, “just ignore the email, and a phone call or text message.”?And tell them you are not interested in the listings and have them take you off their call list. He commented that these out-of-country agencies usually get employment listings that are outdated from other agencies. The companies that have moved in the last few months are supposed to be hiring new employees and they are not. The jobs are frauds that the agency requires the new employee to pay a fee for their services or order office equipment for the job and tell you that you can work at home to save time and money. But they are getting the money because you are buying office equipment through them and the price is high so they can get more money out of you.

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The company or office you are supposed to be working at is involved in something illegal or criminal and if you decide to work for them, you will be arrested and prosecuted. And the temporary/staffing agency that hired you to work at this company is in another country so they will not be charged.

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The pharmacy technician said he learned a valuable lesson on temporary/staffing agency jobs and that he would never recommend accepting a position again through an agency.?He stated if the actual company hired you then great. If not, run, if you find out the job is through an agency.?