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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An overseas Filipino worker , who has had the misfortune of landing odd jobs and not getting paid right, is now a crusading social media influencer giving followers guidelines on job hunting in the United Arab Emirates .Forty-three-year-old Abdulhamid Bandon of Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat said he is doing his crusade so that other Filipinos would not suffer the way he did when he arrived 17 years ago.
The paratha cost AED.50 fils at the time. I lost a lot of weight,” he said.A year later, Bandon’s employer transferred him to a restaurant where he was paid AED1,000 and he was also given a day-off. Bandon was overwhelmed with joy. But it was short lived.He quit after a month because, he said, their co-workers would ask them to do other tasks.“I didn’t get gratuity . I didn’t ask for it. I only wanted my freedom back,” said Bandon.
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