Joblio, Inc., is pleased to announce that Valentina Castellani Quinn has been appointed global spokesperson for the innovative technology platform. Miss Castellani brings award-winning film and production experience to the worldwide technology platform, where she intends to raise awareness about the plight of the world’s most vulnerable migrant populations. The celebrated film producer and head of the esteemed Quinn Studios Entertainment intends to develop a documentary about abused migrants who can be saved through Joblio’s life-changing platform.
“We’re incredibly excited to have Valentina aboard, as her global status as a leading humanitarian will help raise awareness about migrant suffering around the world,” said Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky.
“With Joblio’s help, I’m confident we can continue to raise awareness about human rights abuses around the world,” Miss Castellani noted. “It’s long past time the global community bands together to eliminate modern human slavery and save the lives of migrant labourers who are all too often exploited. With this new technology platform, we have a chance to enact real change.”
In addition to producing Academy Award-nominated films, Miss Castellani has been honored with the prestigious US Congress Award and the English WIFTS Award alongside other prominent women such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and actress Gal Gadot.
Countless communities across the developed world are in dire need of additional workers. Ensuring the quick integration of migrant labourers into our communities is of the utmost importance to meet the critical labour shortage currently besetting the global economy.
The Joblio method of community management is an incredibly effective strategy for ensuring the successful integration of migrant labourers into their host countries. Here’s how Joblio is helping migrant labourers succeed with stellar community management services.
Migrants Need A Community To Lean On
Packing up your belongings and moving to a distant land is no easy feat. Migrants around the world need to be able to lean upon a like-minded community during the integration period to find cultural and commercial success in their new jobs. To that end, Joblio provides community management services which guarantee that no migrant has to undergo the relocation and integration process alone.
“Migrants need support in order to succeed. We provide that support before they ever migrate in the first place, ensuring they’re prepared for the journey to come,” notes Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky.
This community management process begins before migrants even leave their origin countries in the first place. Migrants are thoroughly educated through online courses that teach them about their destination countries long before they arrive. This in turn hastens the integration process once they land in their new home country and fosters better cross-cultural exchange for everyone.
After Joblio thoroughly vets migrant worker candidates to ensure their credentials, the platform provides relocation services which help migrants start their new lives abroad. A prominent feature of this relocation service is that migrants arrive in groups of 20, ensuring they have a similar community of fellows to depend upon in times of trouble.
Governments, companies, and NGOs involved in the global relocation of migrant workers must understand the importance of community management. If workers are thrust into unfamiliar territory without any familiar lifeline to depend upon, their chances of truly succeeding are severely limited. By focusing on positive community management that develops a support network for new migrants, we can drastically improve outcomes for all.
Modern Community Management Solutions
Community management is not a new idea when it comes to migration — scholars have been discussing the merits of community management for decades. Yet recent innovations are allowing us to approach community management from a new angle, harnessing digital technology all the while to supercharge the results.
“We’ve been debating community management for years, but modern technology allows us to quickly resolve age-old problems like never before,” says Jon Purizhansky.
In addition to providing online classes which are widely accessible across the world, we’re also taking steps to ensure the culinary and cultural needs of migrants are met in their new workplaces. Every time Joblio sends a group of 20 migrant labourers to a new host country, a chef who understands the dietary preferences and needs of the migrants goes with them. This way, these invaluable workers can enjoy some of the comforts of home as they explore intimidating new foods, restaurants, and grocery stores in their host nation.
Home cooked meals shared by the migrant workers can also help them bond with one another. As they go through the experience of moving to a new nation together, they’ll develop valuable connections that ensure nobody falls behind during the integration process.
As the global migration industry continues to expand at a breakneck pace, we must take such cultural quirks into consideration. It’s one thing to venture abroad on a temporary vacation and try new foods — it’s another thing entirely to move to a new country for work only to go hungry because local tastes aren’t yet palatable to you. By enhancing the daily wellbeing of migrant communities, we prepare them for the hard day’s work they want to provide in order to secure fair wages.
Making Migrants Feel At Home
A few touches of home life can radically improve the migrant experience, which in turn translates to enhanced commercial gains for their employers and quicker integration into their host nations.
Joblio is taking steps to ensure migrants feel at home in their new countries by ensuring they’re relocated into communities with adequate religious offerings. This means we focus on integrating religious migrants who have concerns about their faith into regions with appropriate places of worship and local faith groups.
Migrants feeling estranged from their religious practices when they enter a new country is one of the most common complaints in the industry. At Joblio, we’re committed to ensuring that migrant labourers don’t have to abandon their religious beliefs in order to pursue economic opportunities abroad.
Making migrants feel at home is a tricky process that’s nevertheless worth pursuing. The cost of failure is a lackluster integration process that wastes the potential of these critical workers. In an effort to bolster human rights, improve the migrant experience, and ensure optimal economic outcomes, Joblio will tirelessly perfect its method of community management.
Every year, tens of millions of people suffer under the yoke of human slavery. Enduring terrible working conditions and meager wages, these individuals often desire a better life abroad but lack the resources or know-how to find work in a new country. Such is the story of Amal Elsayed, an Egyptian national who underwent immense trauma before becoming a Joblio ambassador.
Before Amal found a new life abroad through Joblio’s life-saving platform, she weathered torture and abuse that would push anyone to their limit. This is the story of Amal Elsayed, and how she persevered through immense pain to forge a new and better life for herself.
Overcoming a lifetime of abuse
Long before she was subject to wage-theft and exploitative working conditions, Amal was forced to overcome a lifetime of abuse in her own household. Like others subjected to modern human slavery, Amal endured physical and emotional abuse for years. Raised by an abusive father who was a part of the Egyptian military, Amal was regularly subjected to physical beatings. Despite being subjected to medical mutilation and emotional torment, she strived to educate herself in order to improve her life and contribute to the world.
Amal’s admirable courage in the face of adversity is an important testament to the human spirit. Nevertheless, she found herself in circumstances beyond her own control. Amal was pulled from school against her will and prevented from seeking gainful employment. Her own father publicly threatened to kill her in the wake of her parent’s eventual separation. Besides parental abuse which she endured for years, Amal was also forced to deal with a hostile extended family that sought to return her to her father’s abusive household.
Despite the fact that she managed to escape her father’s clutches, Amal was forced to fend off forced marriage proposals she never consented to, a common practice in Egypt. Relying on a sympathetic family member for shelter, she finally found a job, her own home, and financial independence. For a brief while, Amal’s life seemed to improve drastically.
Things would soon change when her family rediscovered her location. Amal was soon kidnapped and returned to her father, who enviously began to steal her wages. Her tenacity and dedication ensured she was earning more than her father ever had – something he could not abide. While her father eventually allowed Amal to attend university, he continued to control her financial affairs and allowed her only a small sum of money to sustain herself. Every year, workers like Amallose billions to wage theft conducted by bosses and family members.
Amal starts a new with Joblio’s help
Amal faced the same difficulties that millions of migrants encounter every year: moving to a new country requires extensive paperwork and can be extremely difficult. With the help of her boss, Amal was eventually able to secure a visa in Turkey, where she could breathe free and make a good life for herself. For some time, Amal enjoyed higher wages and a far superior living standard than she had ever known before.
“Despite the pain, the suffering, and the psychological stress that my father caused me, I had hope,” Amal recalled.
Yet work visas are temporary, and Amal was soon threatened with deportation as her legal status neared its expiration date. While her father continued to hound her on the internet, Amal had tirelessly worked to create a new and better life for herself. She knows first-hand how difficult it can be for migrants to manage legal documents while juggling with job offers. That’s why she proudly partnered with Joblio, a global technology platform dedicated to protecting society’s most vulnerable migrants.
With Joblio’s help, Amal gained long-term security in her new home country and began to raise awareness about the plight of migrant labourers. While millions of individuals strive to go abroad each year, few of them are capable of finding ethical and gainful employment alone. Through Joblio’s platforms, employers can find dedicated workers like Amal and help them move abroad to escape their perilous circumstances.
“Nobody should have to struggle with the perils of migration alone,” according to Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky. “With our technological platform, people like Amal can get the help they need to start a new and better life abroad.”
Joblio empowers migrants around the world
Amal’s life story was once defined by tragedy – but now, she’s in control of the narrative. Empowered by access to a global labour market which enables her to earn high wages without being subject to exploitation, Amal is a success story that other migrant labourers can look up to. Joblio’s mission is to replicate Amal’s success by empowering millions of other migrants around the world, ensuring their human rights are protected as they seek new homes.
By providing a transparent medium of communication between workers and employers, Joblio ensures migrant labourers like Amal can easily find work. It enables them to effortlessly negotiate salary, working hours, and other details with their potential bosses. Perhaps most important of all, Joblio develops local partnerships to ensure national and international laws are obeyed during the migration and hiring process.
Our world can be dangerous and exploitative, but Joblio is shedding light into its darkest corners. With the continued development of Joblio’s cutting-edge platform, millions of migrants can make their dreams a reality by finding work and self-determination around the globe.
The global supply chain has endured years of withering abuse and strain with little reprieve. These days, the foundations of the global supply chain and global labour pool are beginning to buckle, unleashing a humanitarian and financial crisis that could easily have deadly consequences.
Mismanaging our supply chain, undervaluing the role of labourers in the modern economy, and seeking short-term fixes for long-standing problems are at the root of the issue. Here’s how a renewed appreciation for better labour standards can prevent economic catastrophe.
COVID-19, Greed, And A Dismal Labour Scene
The current supply chain and labour catastrophe is the result of numerous simultaneous developments. In addition to a devastating global pandemic that has seriously frustrated the flow of people and goods across international borders, the supply chain and labour crisis was years in the making.
The painful fact of the matter is that labour shortages have been developing across critical industries for years now, though they’re growing worse in a number of key sectors due to COVID-19 woes. An inability to recognize that ethical and transparent hiring practices are a prerequisite to preventing terrible labour famines has exacerbated our current crisis.
“Workers need fair wages, but they also need to be treated with respect and dignity,” notes Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky. “We can’t simply bribe people into accepting reviled jobs.”
While the short-term solutions often focus on improving wages, a wise step, they often fail to improve the public perception of certain jobs. Truck drivers are desperately needed in the UK, the US, and countless other developed economies yet suffer from outdated public perceptions.
According to Bruce Busada, president of the Diesel Driving Academy, starting salaries for truck drivers have soared from ~$40,000-55,000 in the pre-pandemic era to ~$60,000-85,000 today. Nevertheless, shortages persist because workers recognize that these jobs aren’t valued compared to other opportunities they would prefer pursuing. Workers also fear for their literal health and safety, something that higher wages simply won’t be able to solve in many cases.
Fostering A Welcoming Job Market
Employers around the globe can no longer take their workers for granted. A welcoming job market must be fostered to lure in talented human capital that as recently as a few years ago was dismissed as “low-wage” or “minimum wage” work that could be done by anyone. A revolution in how we view the essential labour jobs that sustain our society is sorely needed.
Corporate hiring managers who are unfamiliar with the daily realities of physically-intense jobs must recognize that these positions will be difficult to fill going forward, even if pandemic-related chaos subsides. Employers must also come to recognize the growing structural unemployment facing many developed economies due to changing demographics and diminished natural birth rates.
The solution is staring the global community in the face, yet few are ready to take the necessary steps to bolster the future of the international economy. The global talent pool is vast, yet workers struggle to migrate from one nation to another, especially during pandemics. By making it easier to relocate human capital to wherever it’s needed in an ethical and efficient manner, we can prevent a grim future defined by structural unemployment.
“By allowing migrant labourers to effortlessly fill in local labour shortages as they arise, we create optimal economic outcomes for everyone,” says Jon Purizhansky.
Juggling Health Concerns And Fair Employment Practices
Business leaders trying to avoid a dire financial future have two tools at their disposal. First and foremost, the health concerns of domestic workers must be assuaged by making health and hygiene a practical priority rather than a simple talking point. The critical labour famine currently upsetting global markets will never be remedied until blue collar workers are confident in their own health and safety.
According to the the Bureau of Census Household Pulse Survey, approximately 12 million people in the US cited COVID symptoms, COVID care, COVID fears, and childcare needs as the reason they weren’t working. Few of these individuals will return to work until vaccination is near-universal, public health is solidly assured, and childcare needs are met for workers.
The next tool that employers and governments can rely upon is ethical and fair hiring practices that attract migrant workers who can fill critical labour shortages. Rather than allowing our economy to crater, we can empower the millions of hardworking migrants around the world who seek employment in a developed economy.
That’s why the Joblioplatform is striving to make global employment opportunities more accessible to migrant labourers. When talented individuals from around the world have an ethical, transparent, and free way to secure jobs for themselves, labour shortages may be speedily resolved. Additionally, employers and consumers don’t have to grapple with the deleterious effects of high employee turnover rates.
We don’t have to choose economic stagnation in the form of a severe labour famine. By empowering and welcoming migrant workers while instituting health and safety reforms at home, the global community can bounce back from this crisis to ensure a prosperous and sustainable 21st century.
The International Labour Organization continues to remind the world that millions of people are enthralled in modern slavery rings. Despite decades of legal and humanitarian progress, countless individuals are still subjugated to brutal conditions and forced to work against their will. The criminal rings that facilitate these crimes are motivated by pure profit.
Human trafficking and forced labour have no place in the 21st century. This exploration of modern slavery around the world illustrates the importance of setting a new global standard for protecting human rights.
Slavery As Government Policy
It’s tempting to think that human slavery is the result of lawless criminals who must constantly avoid the attention of authorities. In reality, human slavery is often tragically implemented as government policy by authoritarian regimes around the globe.
One report from the Thomas Reuters Foundation notes that approximately 40 million people around the world are trapped in modern slavery. Countries with the highest rates of slavery such as North Korea and Eritrea frequently have governments that either turn a blind eye to slavery or literally employ it themselves.
“While experts suspect that at least 40 million people around the world are suffering from modern slavery, the true extent of this crime may go even further,” notes global relocation expert Jon Purizhansky. “Until more resources and attention are paid to this issue, we may never know for sure how many people are labouring under the yoke of slavery.”
While it’s convenient to imagine that these slavery regimes only benefit authoritarian leaders, much of the global public also unknowingly benefits from human bondage. As Amnesty International points out, major international events like the World Cup often materialize through the exploitation and abuse of workers.
For modern slavery to be conclusively defeated, the global public must involve itself in the fight for human rights.
Raising Awareness
Human traffickers target vulnerable populations to identify individuals who are susceptible to kidnapping or dishonest recruiting efforts. The United Nations claims that forced labour is more common than it was in previous decades, with men and children now being targeted at higher rates. In addition to forced labour, forced marriages are beginning to draw more global attention as a form of indentured servitude.
“In addition to forced labour, many vulnerable groups also face the grim prospect of forced marriages and forced medical procedures,” says Jon Purizhansky.
Young women are frequently married against their will to older men who exploit them physically, financially, and emotionally. While they may not be fulfilling a traditional job, forced domestic servitude and sexual assault are tragically common and qualify as slavery.
Raising Awareness
Human traffickers target vulnerable populations to identify individuals who are susceptible to kidnapping or dishonest recruiting efforts. The United Nations claims that forced labour is more common than it was in previous decades, with men and children now being targeted at higher rates. In addition to forced labour, forced marriages are beginning to draw more global attention as a form of indentured servitude.
“In addition to forced labour, many vulnerable groups also face the grim prospect of forced marriages and forced medical procedures,” says Jon Purizhansky.
Young women are frequently married against their will to older men who exploit them physically, financially, and emotionally. While they may not be fulfilling a traditional job, forced domestic servitude and sexual assault are tragically common and qualify as slavery.
Despite this immense suffering, the situation is only getting worse with each passing year. Until these vulnerable groups are recognized and protected by the global community, human trafficking rings will continue targeting them.
A report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime illustrates that global human trafficking rates have actually been increasing over the past few years. Unfortunately, it will be difficult to collect and analyze similar data for the 2020-2021 period due to the global pandemic. Nevertheless, the global community must remain vigilant and recognize this growing problem before it gets even worse.
Fostering Industry Protections
To crack down on modern human slavery, we need to protect workers in certain industries that are ripe for exploitation. Men who work in fisheries, agriculture, and hospitality are regularly the victims of human trafficking rings and labour exploitation in the European Union, for instance.
In addition to human rights bodies monitoring these areas, business leaders within these sectors should proactively secure workers’ rights whenever possible. Human trafficking can only be defeated through an effort of combined arms that couples government regulation with ethical private business practices.
Victims are also reluctant to come forward with claims of abuse, as they naturally fear their jobs will be jeopardized. Providing mechanisms so that migrant labourers, those without an education, and historically vulnerable groups can all report exploitation is essential to success.
When the entire international community is united in this aim, the 40 million+ individuals currently labouring under the yoke of slavery will have a chance to finally breathe free.
“Ending human slavery won’t be easy,” notes Jon Purizhansky, “but it’s a moral imperative that should unite everyone across the globe.”
The ongoing migrant crisis in Europe continues to challenge government officials, NGOs, and private businesses desperately trying to manage the flow of people across borders. While some temporary measures have helped authorities regain control, a long-term solution to disorganized and dangerous migration is sorely needed.
WIth the Joblio platform, we can halt the migrant crisis and establish a more sensible migration system. Here’s how Joblio’s revolutionary technology can make migration more manageable.
Hundreds are missing or dead
Each year, tens of thousands of migrants are arriving in Europe from the sea, though not all of them manage to complete this perilous voyage. According to UN data, nearly 600 were reported missing or dead from sea-based crossings in 2019 alone. Without immediate and serious action on the part of government officials and European businesses, this grim figure may keep rising.
“We have been far too ambivalent about the wellbeing of migrants,” notes Joblio CEO
. “Many European industries are utterly dependent upon migrant labour to remain operational, yet we regularly implement dizzying laws that restrict migration and make life difficult for current labourers.”
At a time when many European companies are grappling with crippling labour shortages, many European lawmakers are actively making it difficult for migrants to make new lives here. This depresses economic growth, encourages undocumented migration, and fuels humanitarian crises which shock and anger us with heartbreaking images.
Build a better tomorrow with Joblio
Once we harness the Joblio platform to put an end to migrant labour exploitation, we can begin building a more sustainable economic future. As we’ve already seen, migrants can successfully integrate into European societies despite some populist backlash against their acceptance. This process begins with destigmatizing migrants.
With platforms like Joblio, migrants can quickly find work abroad. This next-generation service also provides language support, assistance with document management, and never charges migrants a penny in return for job opportunities. When European businesses begin to understand the true extent of Joblio’s platform, they’ll come to view migration as a commercial opportunity rather than a cultural threat.
“What we need to remind everyone is that migration is a serious economic and humanitarian issue,” says Jon Purizhansky. “While it’s important we open our hearts to their suffering, it’s also critical to recall that migrant labour iis a sound investment in our mutual future.”
As Europe approaches a serious labour crunch in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is becoming more obvious with each passing day. Business owners and public figures must loudly remind the public that qualified migrant labourers recruited through platforms like Joblio will prove indispensable for future economic growth.
Overcoming hurdles to success
There are a few key issues we must focus on to ensure the migrant crisis is truly ended. Lackluster legislation currently muddies the waters and makes it difficult for businesses to understand commercial regulations. During an economic downturn, this has the added effect of killing struggling businesses which might have survived if regulations had been more clear.
The next is convincing the public that critical labour shortages in vital industries may only be remediable with the help of migrant labourers. The importation of qualified migrant labour cannot be viewed as a threat by the public, but must come to be recognized as a beneficial public policy for all.
Finally, backwards public opinion and simple bigotry continue to pollute minds across the Western world. Open hearts as well as clever minds are required for ending the migrant crisis. Luckily, the Joblio platform combines a wise solution to current employment problems with a compassionate approach to human rights.
“There’s no reason for Europe to keep stumbling in the dark,” says Jon Purizhansky. “With the Joblio platform, we can bring an end to the migrant crisis and prevent future humanitarian disasters.”
Employers around the world depend upon migrant labourers, yet few take the necessary steps to integrate these essential workers into local communities. By providing community management services for migrant workers, employers can drastically reduce expensive worker turnover while bolstering productivity and social cohesion across the workforce.
From offering language support to organizing community shopping trips, here’s how employers can help migrant workers upskill and integrate themselves into local communities.
Helping Migrants Achieve Success
Business owners who depend upon migrant workers should appreciate the value which can be derived from investing in one’s workforce. In addition to serving as a kind act of charity, helping migrant workers integrate is a sound investment in the future. Governments invest in integration, yet private businesses can also take steps to improve their own talent pool. Migrant workers who better understand local languages and customs will avoid seeking work elsewhere and find it easier to attain valuable educational or professional credentials.
Helping them achieve success should thus be a priority for every business owner. Nevertheless, that’s often easier said than done. Many companies host integration seminars which produce lackluster results, leading them to ignore such investment in the future. This is a terrible mistake to make – investing in migrant communities is a long-term commitment that requires careful cultural outreach.
“Migrant workers are looking for any opportunity to learn a new skill,” notes global relocation expert and Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky. “Workers will eagerly pursue any learning opportunity they’re afforded, benefiting everyone. We just have to be willing to meet them in the middle.”
This means hosting community support services to ensure workers and their family members grow accustomed to local norms.
Recommendations To Employers
There are many ways to help refugees and migrants integrate. Employers trying to help migrant workers assimilate should take the following steps.
Ensure migrants are housed with others who speak the same language. Far too often, migrant workers reside in cramped dwellings with other workers from different countries. Without a common language, no sense of community can develop and fights are easier to start.
Provide English language services. After ensuring migrants can speak their native tongues in their own residences, take steps to provide English language services that go further than basic proficiency. Possessing advanced literacy helps migrants consume local cultural entertainment and make friends in the area.
Provide healthy recreational activities. Organizing a community football team and providing healthy means of recreation, such as ping pong tables or access to digital entertainment, is an essential part of discouraging unhealthy habits like drinking or illegal drug use.
Organize group shopping trips. Would you be comfortable shopping by yourself in a new country for the first time? Take migrants out in groups to local shopping centers. Introduce them to popular brands and explain local norms, such as whether customers are expected to tip or how to request assistance from customer support professionals.
Provide services to women. Migrant women may be unfamiliar with local fashion and beauty customs. Introducing them to professional attire and familiarizing them with popular social customs can smooth community integration. Consider providing guidance to all parents on where to acquire children’s clothing, toys, and school supplies.
Connect successful migrants with newcomers. Finally, put newly arrived migrants in contact with successful migrant labourers from the same origin country who have integrated into the new community. These established migrant workers serve as role models for newcomers and help them deal with any problems that arise as they settle into their new homes.
Ensuring Optimal Outcomes
Employers must understand that the integration process is continuous. Workers are always learning new things about their host countries, whether they’re on the factory floor or on their way home using public transportation. Providing constant support is thus critical, as the integration process doesn’t simply end after a language certification is achieved.
“Far too often, employers think that they just have to get workers here and integration will naturally occur,” notes Jon Purizhansky. “In reality, we have to invest in migrant communities and remember their humanity rather than simply exploit them as a source of labour.”
In addition to thoroughly educating migrant workers about on-the-job conditions, employers should ensure their workers know their rights. Only after migrants are aware of their human rights and local norms can they truly integrate. Remember that government integration initiatives are often insufficient, making private sector integration efforts all the more important.
Keep these tips in mind and your company will soon be enjoying the unique insights and tireless talent of integrated migrant workers who are proud members of your community.
About Joblio, Inc: Joblio is a leading technology platform in the global migrant labour industry based in Miami, FL. Chaired by David Arkless, Former Global President of the ManpowerGroup, Joblio was founded by Jon Purizhansky in2020. Joblio prevents fraud and ensures compliance with labour laws in the processes of human capital relocation across the world. By directly connecting migrant labourers with their employers, Joblio removes middlemen from the hiring process to ensure fair and prosperous employment. In 2021, Joblio received the “Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection” Award from the Abrahamic Business Circle.
Millions of migrants are on the move around the world today, yet international human rights protections are all too frequently flouted by those in power. Recognizing and protecting the shared humanity between ourselves and the migrant community is of critical importance. As refugees from Afghanistan, Haiti, and elsewhere seek new lives abroad, the global community must step forward to ensure their rights are respected.
Recent efforts to brutalize migrants must be loudly denounced if we wish to avoid wasting the progress on human rights we’ve made in the 21st century. Here’s why the international business community benefits by standing up for migrant rights.
Cruelty today leads to disaster tomorrow
There’s no denying that cruelty directed toward migrants and refugees imposes tragic costs upon these vulnerable groups. Religious and political refugees seeking protection abroad and migrant workers seeking to fill international labour shortages are regularly met with brutality when they try to claim asylum. Make no mistake about it – any cruelty dispensed toward migrants today will cause a backlash in the future.
Those who castigate migrant workers as evil and dangerous soon discover the economic pain of living without those same migrant labourers. Initial enthusiasm to expel migrant labourers from Britain has now led to critical labour and resource shortages which portend economic malaise in the future. Those who rejected the crucial role of migrant labourers are reaping what they once sowed, but now everyone in the global economy has to pay the price for such folly.
“Opponents of migration seldom understand the immense economic costs they’re imposing on the rest of us,” notes Joblio CEO and migration expert Jon Purizhansky. “While they couch their arguments in the language of protectionism, migrant labourers are actually an unfettered economic good.”
Nevertheless, thousands of migrants are subject to brutal conditions fostered by some of the world’s wealthiest governments. Terrifying cavalry raids and extralegal deportations continue to harass migrant populations and plant the seeds of a long-term economic downturn. The global business community must loudly protect the humanity of migrants for reasons both morally and financially sound.
Removing refugees from risk
The global community must come together and remove refugees from risk. By developing useful infrastructure that can help humans when they’re on the move, we can inject desperately needed transparency and efficiency into our international system for handling migration. This requires looking at the gaps in our current system to determine when, where, and how we’re failing migrants as they make their journeys.
We must also remain vigilant as the pandemic continues to spread, especially in those underprivileged portions of the world with limited access to vaccines. The United Nations is already sounding the alarm and reminding the public that human rights will be drastically diminished by the continued spread of COVID-19. Business titans and political leaders must resolve themselves to improve the international migration system sooner rather than later.
“At Joblio, we’re constantly searching for ways to improve the wellbeing of migrants,” says Jon Purizhansky. “While we’re happy to lead the way, we want the support of others in our mission to establish new global standards in human rights protections.”
Building a better future for everyone
In addition to developing new technologies to preserve human rights, public attention must be paid to human rights abuses when they occur. Nevertheless, real change requires more than merely paying attention to the optics of ongoing international news stories. Business leaders can’t simply chime in whenever it’s convenient – protecting the human rights of our migrant workers must be a constant and paramount priority.
To build a better future, let’s commit ourselves to ensuring the rights of refugees and migrants everywhere. Let us ignore temporary outrage and invest ourselves instead in the slow but steady process of removing harmful actors from the practice of human migration. Platforms like Joblio are just the start – once we are united in a common purpose, the international community has the power to remake and radically improve the current international migration regime.
Founder and CEO of Joblio.co Jon Purizhansky points out that according to Human Rights Watch, An Italian program to provide undocumented migrants with a pathway to residency adopted amid the Covid-19 pandemic did not live up to its promise.
The Italian government struggled for years with the problem of undocumented migrants. At the same time, there is dire need for staff within the industries of agriculture and healthcare in Italy. Jon Purizhansky accents that the program created two pathways for undocumented migrants to acquire a temporary residency permit.
An employer sponsorship option limited to the agricultural sector, including livestock and fisheries, and the home care sectors, including care for people in their home and domestic work. It was available to people already employed irregularly – or with someone willing to hire them in these sectors – and who could prove they were in Italy before March 8. The other was a jobseeker permit available to people who became undocumented on or after October 31, 2019 and could prove that they were previously employed in agriculture or home care.
However, Italian employers are experiencing shortages of staff all across all the industries and not just the agriculture and the healthcare sectors. Despite the severity of the labor shortages, undocumented workers in construction, hospitality, and logistics, for example, were unable to apply for the program. The program also created an opportunity for fraud and further exploitation of vulnerable migrants, with reports of fictitious labor contracts being sold for up to €7,000.
Clearly, Italy requires an innovative approach that will bring transparency, compliance and efficiency into the industry of labor migration.
A global technology powered social impact project, Joblio directly connects employers who need staff with workers globally. Jon Purizhansky says that employers are able to post job opportunities that become visible to job applicants via join.joblio.co or a native Joblio app available on all Apple and Android devices. Most importantly, Joblio removes all middlemen who exist in the chain between employers and employees and, therefore, catalyzes the process of hiring and optimizes efficiency for both, the employers and the employees. Jon Purizhansky points out that transparency created by Joblio not only creates economic efficiencies, but also protects human rights.
It is for this reason that Joblio could become a real de-facto solution for the undocumented migrant crises in Italy. Jon Purizhansky says that Joblio invites everyone to join its global fight against the inequities and the unfairness that currently exist within the space of global labor migration.
You can take the refugee out of the refugee camp, says Jon Purizhansky, but you’ll never erase the pain of that experience.
The Buffalo-based attorney-turned-tech entrepreneur is using his history as fuel to build a social enterprise startup that helps protect transient employees from predatory middlemen.
Joblio, launched a year ago, is a global talent marketplace for migrant workers.
As it currently stands, workers in underdeveloped areas have to take out loans to pay middlemen, who set them up with jobs that can range from cleaning to fruit-picking. The middlemen often over-promise and under deliver, leading to problems for the employees and their prospective employers.
Joblio is a carefully managed software-as-a-service platform for those employers, who can connect directly with new pools of talent around the world (they only work with companies that provide free housing for the workers). And for the migrant workers themselves, it’s a free and transparent way to escape the tethers of poverty and lawlessness.
“Joblio walks into this ecosystem and brings order to it without creating additional financial pressure from the corporate sector,” Purizhansky said. “They’re not only doing the right thing, but they’re gaining efficiency, new revenue and transparency at no extra cost.”
The 1998 graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School is moving fast. He recently closed a $4 million seed round from a strategic corporate investor and employs about 60 people across the globe. The workforce is distributed, and he is the only Western New York employee, for now, though he is advised by John Gavigan, who leads Endeavor’s Western New York chapter, and Dennis Vacco, the former state Attorney General who is now a partner at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman law firm.
Jon Purizhansky said he is open to building an employee cluster in Buffalo, but that his focus is on creating the best company possible as Joblio scales quickly. The company has opened up its marketplace in Poland and Romania, is launching soon in the United Arab Emirates, and is working on several large partnerships with organizations that can instantly grant them access to large groups of people.
He wants to change things quickly, referencing Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s capitalism-based approach at driving social change.
“I want to build a huge company, which I’m confident we’re going to do,” Purizhansky said. “We don’t take anything from anyone, and we have the corporate sector funding it.”
Joblio is the 18th local company to acknowledge growth-oriented financing this year. The others include Jerry ($103 million), Squire ($60 million), Tackle.io ($35 million), Torch Labs ($25 million), Circuit Clinical ($7.5 million), SomaDetect ($6 million), Kickfurther ($5.9 million), HELIXintel ($1.6 million), Patient Pattern ($1.2 million), Ellicottville Greens ($1 million), Ognomy ($700,000), Braid Babes ($415,000), MemoryFox ($380,000) and Zizo Technologies ($200,000) and Thimble.io ($125,000) and Classavo (undisclosed).