EXCLUSIVE: Dubai recruiter caught in Ministry sting op
by Soren Billing on Sunday, 27 September 2009

ILLEGAL PAYMENTS: The Ministry of Labour is set to shut down a Dubai-based recruitment agent following a sting operation exposed illegal payments.UAE authorities are set to shut down a Dubai-based recruitment agency and press charges against its owners on allegations that the firm charged candidates for applying for jobs.

A sting operation by the Ministry of Labour (MoL) found that the company was charging job seekers for applying for jobs, a source close to the situation told Arabian Business.

The operation was one in a series of crackdowns on rogue recruiters in the country, the source said.


Execuland, a white-collar recruitment consultancy with offices on the 41st floor of Emirates Towers, was also found to be advertising jobs despite not being registered as a recruitment agency.

Nobody from the company showed up for work on Sunday, according to a receptionist outside the firm’s office, and telephone calls were directed to voice mail.

UAE recruiters are only allowed to charge employers for their services.

Previously only a problem for blue-collar workers in sectors like construction, the economic slowdown has seen illegal recruitment fees spread to all parts of the market as a wave of redundancies in Gulf states created a surplus of job candidates.

Article 18 of the UAE Labour Law states that: “no licensed employment agent or labour supplier shall demand or accept from any worker...any commission or material reward in return for employment”.

In a statement sent earlier to Arabian Business, Humaid bin Deemas, the acting director general of MoL, said that jobseekers asked for fees should submit a complaint supported by evidence to any of the ministry’s customer offices.

The managing director of Execuland did not immediately respond to e-mails.

News available on: http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568661-exclusive-dubai-recruiter-shut-down-over-illegal-payments

Mr.Alexander and Mr.Azab..the 2 idiots who claimed on Dubizzle and complaints board that they got jobs through execuland dubai...are you fools reading this??

Cheers to all those who helped to shut down these cheaters

Special thanks to Ministry of Labor, Dubai

I found a complaint about Execuland on the internet.

http://dubai.dubizzle.com/discuss/community-issues/5057

The moderator of this site had removed the name of the agency.

In this thread, while everyone was complaining about recruitment agencies cheating candidates looking for a job, one person named Alexander claimed in the thread that he got a job through this recruitment agency and that the agency was not scam.

I have got solid proof that Mr.Alexander (who in this thread stated that he had got a job through this recruitment agency) is an employee of the so called agency.

Any one can easily verify this.

Mr.Alexander mentioned his email address is [email protected]

If you perform a WHOIS lookup of the recruitment agency website (WHOIS provides information about who owns the website), here are the results:


Registrant:
COMCRA
Dubai
Dubai
Dubai, Dubai Dubai
AE

Domain Name: EXECULAND.COM


Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
COMCRA [email protected]
Dubai
Dubai
Dubai, Dubai Dubai
AE
971508541334

Record expires on 14-May-2010.
Record created on 14-May-2009.
Database last updated on 15-Sep-2009 10:28:17 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS17.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.9
NS18.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.144.9

Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited

This means that Mr.Alexander is the one who registered the website of this recruitment agency and hence he is an employee.

Please do not fall into this scam. Do not pay money for getting a job.

Best Regards
Abhilash

I was called for an interview and after they made me wait for nearly 2 hours and asking hundreds of questions they tell me that i have to pay 250 aed for a psychometric test.. and this fee is non-refundable and there is still no gurantee that i'll get the job. this is like a con job, i am sure they must be doin this to hundreds of people.. no wonder they can afford offices in emirates towers.. and to make the candidate feel guilty they say its for an oil company..