Recruiting Agency cheats Filipino's out of $3 million USD in wages

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Advanced Professional Marketing, Inc., New York

http://www.adpromar.biz/main/service.html

a Phys. Therapist and Nurse recruit agency in New York has been fined $512,000.00 and ordered to pay $3 million USD in back wages to H1-B visa holding Filipino Phys. Therapists. I suspect that this agency will declare bankruptcy to avoid this payment requirement and the workers will get screwed out of their wages. A fancy website and glowing advertisement does NOT guarantee a reputable agency!!

KNOW whom you are dealing with if you are looking for a recruiting agency to "help" you find a job in the USA!!!

"US firm accused of holding back wages of Filipinos

Agence France-Presse

First Posted 09:32:00 03/26/2008

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NEW YORK--A US medical staffing firm has been charged with violating a foreign labor program after it allegedly owed almost three million dollars back wages to its Filipino workers, the labor department said Tuesday.

The New York-based Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. (APMI) and its president, Marissa Beck, were charged by the department with violating provisions of an immigration law that authorized employers to bring non-immigrant workers into the United States under the H-1B program.

An investigation found that 156 H-1B guest workers from the Philippines, employed by the company primarily as physical therapists in hospitals and other medical facilities in the New York metropolitan area, were owed almost three million dollars in back wages, the department said in a statement.

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