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lisa Gonzales
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Aug 22, 2012
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not paying salary - filed at DOLE
Lighthouse Software Cebu and Lighthouse IP Group = NOT a stable company
In Cebu (lapu-lapu), more than 400 employees where dismissed the last working day of July 2012 without pay. After a week, lighthouse Software Cebu Inc. informed us that we can come to the office for an advance of 200 peso (4,5 USD only), instead of a full months salary. 200 peso barely covers the cost for transport to the office, this is ridiculous. A complain is filed with DOLE, the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment. The remaining lighthouse employees are only paid a part of their salary. Late payments are ongoing for a year already and escalated since june 2012.
We hear that other offices face the same problems, no health care paid in China for + 300 employees since years, payment delays for up to months in Vietnam, Thailand, ... but the big bosses fly around in a private jet and go to the most exquisite hotels, such as http://www.shangri-la.com/cebu/mactanresort
I recommend not to work there, you never now when or if you will receive your money.
Some long term employees start to look for another job, or left already.
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lisa Gonzales
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Aug 22, 2012
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Salaries for + 400 to be paid
If we don't get our salary Aug 30, we all should txt and mail Willem the CEO until he pays. Even if they really pay Aug 30, it is still dishonest and not fair, a month too late and he had a nice holiday in the Bahamas http://www.bahamas-pictures.com/pictures.htm and a lot of us and family have a tough time.
Willem Geert Lagemaat
CEO-Lighthouse IP Group
www.lighthouseip.com
Mobile: +31 653 247 382
[email protected]
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lisa Gonzales
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Sep 6, 2012
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Willem Geert Lagemaat didn't pay salary for + 400 employees
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2012/09/04/dole-company-pay-employees-241004
By Mia A. Aznar
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) 7 is expected to issue an order to a company to pay 480 employees their unpaid wages and proportionate 13th month pay.
That, after Lighthouse IP Cebu reportedly failed to pay the employees P2.7 million in wages.
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Dole tri-city field office supervisor Rogen Cumba said their agency received emailed complaints from employees last July 5 about the company’s failure to release their salaries following termination and completion of their projects.
Cumba said his office inspected the Lighthouse IP at the Mactan Export Processing Zone 2 last Aug. 8 and held two conferences with the management.
The company officials reportedly admitted they could not release the salaries of the employees because the funds from their main office, based in the Netherlands, had not arrived. “They are willing to pay. But they were unable to get funds from the mother company.”
Cumba is preparing an order directing the company to release the salaries and other benefits of the 480 terminated employees and is finalizing the list of employees who should be paid.
He said that once the order is received, the company will have 10 days to comply with it. Within the 10-day period, they also have the option to file a motion for reconsideration or make an appeal. He added that the order could be issued within the week.
The order will compel Lighthouse IP to release the unpaid wages of the employees for the period July 11 to 25 and July 26 to 31.
For now, he said the company has retained 50 employees to continue operations.
In a press statement yesterday, Lighthouse IP Group acknowledged “experiencing some financial difficulties.” But it said it “remains bullish in doing business in the Philippines.”
The company said they owe project-based employees salaries for one payday (as of July 30) and 13th month pay. The company said their contracts ended July 30.
“Lighthouse IP Group has executed a large data entry project in our local office in Cebu. Unfortunately, the project has proven to be a loss-making one, which has brought our organization into cash flow problems. We are currently resolving the matter and we planned on paying the outstanding salaries two weeks ago. Unfortunately, we are still recovering from the cash flow problems caused by this loss-making project.
Nevertheless, there is light at the end of the tunnel and we expect to be able to pay the salaries of our Cebu colleagues soon. Lighthouse Software Cebu, Inc. and Lighthouse IP Group are working closely with Dole to resolve this matter,” the company said.
“Resolving this issue has our highest priority and we trust it will be solved soon. We are very sorry for all the problems this is causing our local staff.”
In previous press launches, Lighthouse IP described the duties of its employees as data work, non-voice projects such as data enrichment, annotation, data entry, data mining, translations; as well human, human-edited machine and purely machine translations and offers virtual employees and software development service.
Late last year, they sought to hire additional employees to work on an international trademark database where they digitize and structure trademark data from 87 countries, kept in paper stacks since 1976.
A Facebook page contains several complaints from employees, calling on the management to pay up. (PR)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on September 05, 2012.
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lisa Gonzales
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Sep 6, 2012
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No salaries for 480 employees says Willem Geert Lagemaat
Mactan KPO company Lighthouse IP Group risks penalties
CEBU CITY -- A knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company operating in the Mactan Economic Zone (MEZ) II risks penalties for failing to pay its employees a total of P2.7 million in wages and benefits, a regional official of the Labor department said yesterday.
Rogen S. Cumba, supervisor of the department’s field office, said the local unit of Netherlands-based Lighthouse IP Group failed to pay 430 project-based employees their salaries for the periods July 11-25 and July 26-31. The employees, whose project ended on July 31, also failed to receive their pro-rata 13th month pay.
Some 50 regular employees of Lighthouse Software Cebu, Inc. have also not received their salaries since the July 31 payday.
“Company officials said they are willing to pay, only that they don’t have the money,” Mr. Cumba said.
He said company representatives, in two meetings held last month, explained they were waiting for funds from company headquarters to pay the workers.
A statement issued by company headquarters in The Netherlands yesterday afternoon assured that the salaries will be paid soon.
“Resolving this issue has our highest priority and we trust it will be solved soon. We are very sorry for all the problems this is causing our local staff,” the company said in a statement.
The company said it suffered from cash flow problems in the project for which 430 workers were hired.
“The earlier mentioned cash flow problem is only temporary and after this is resolved, our organization will create more economic and employment opportunities for Cebu and (its) people,” the company said, adding it remained optimistic on its business prospects in the Philippines.
Labor department investigators visited the Lighthouse office at MEZ II in Lapu-Lapu City last Aug. 8 after receiving a complaint e-mailed by one of the 430 workers whose contracts ended in July.
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lisa Gonzales
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Sep 11, 2012
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WIllem Geert Lagemaat, CEO of Lighthouse IP Group still owes 480 employees their salary
WIllem Geert Lagemaat, CEO of Lighthouse IP Group did not pay salaries for 480 employees from Lighthouse Software Cebu Inc 480 employees are still waiting for their unpaid salaries. WIllem Geert Lagemaat, CEO of Lighthouse IP Group in the Netherlands sais, a temporary cashflow problem, we will solve it. Question is when will the salaries be paid. Willem Geert Lagemaat is responsible, Willem Geert Lagemaat's money problems shouldn't rest on Filipino employees.
More info regarding Lighthouse IP Group and Lighthouse Software Cebu Inc
Willem Geert Lagemaat CEO who is responsible and failed to send money to Cebu to pay salaries
Nijverheidstraat 6
2222 AV Katwijk
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)71 409 13 40
Fax: +31 (0)71 409 13 49
Published, Sept 9 - 2012 http://cebu.businessguide.ph/lighthouse-ip-group/
Dole orders Lighthouse IP Group to pay workers
Mactan Economic Zone (MEZ) 2 locator Lighthouse IP Group owes over 400 former employees P2.7 million in wages and 13th month pay, a Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) 7 official said Tuesday.
Rogen Cumba of DoLE 7 said the department is set to issue this week an order directing the Cebu office of the Netherlands-based intellectual property specialist to pay 480 workers who did not receive their salaries for the period July 11-25 and July 26-31.
Since 430 of the employees ceased working for the company as of August 1, they are also to be given their 13th month pay computed according to the length of time they’ve worked for Lighthouse IP this year, Mr. Cumba, who is the department’s Tri-City Field Office (TCFO) supervisor, added.
Mr. Cumbra revealed that in two meetings last August with company representatives, they explained they were waiting for funds from company headquarters to pay off workers.
Lighthouse IP Group said in its website that it operates in eight countries including the Philippines and offers IP, translation, outsourcing, and software development services, among others.
Mr. Cumba said labor department investigators visited the Lighthouse office in Lapu-Lapu City last August 8 after receiving a complaint emailed by one of the 430 workers whose work contracts ended in July.
According to him, Lighthouse has 10 days from receipt of the labor department’s order to either comply or file a motion for reconsideration.
“Company officials said they are willing to pay, only that they don’t have the money,” he stressed, adding that Lighthouse IP might need to sell off some of its assets so it could pay the wages of its former employees.
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lisa Gonzales
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Sep 11, 2012
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Info Willem Geert Lagemaat, failing to pay salaries for 480 employees
Info Willem Geert Lagemaat, failing to pay salaries for 480 employees
Willem Geert Lagemaat CEO Lighthouse IP Group and Lighthouse Software Cebu Inc.
Willem Geert Lagemaat
CEO-Lighthouse IP Group
www.lighthouseip.com
Mobile: +31 653 247 382
[email protected]
Info copied from http://www.lighthouseip.com/our-management/willem-geert-lagemaat/
Willem Geert Lagemaat (1972) is CEO of Lighthouse IP Group. After the technical university (HTS), Willem Geert joined Univentio in 1993 and was appointed CEO of Univentio in 1996. Univentio was originally founded by his father in 1952 and became one of the largest and leading patent data producers in the world. In 2005 the company was acquired by Reed Elsevier.
In 2006 Willem Geert founded Lighthouse IP Group, a global information services and consulting firm that offers a distinctive blend of capabilities, bringing together Intellectual Property information expertise, Translation Services, Data Processing Services, as well as Virtual Employees, Outsourcing and Software Development. Currently Lighthouse IP Group has offices in 9 countries worldwide and employs over 800 people globally.
Since 2004 Willem Geert has also been President of PatCom, the association of commercial patent information service providers.
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petrajvs
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Dec 18, 2012
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Lighthouse IP Group dis not pay 480 employees and uses our money for events
Lighthouse IP Group CEO, Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum are giving speeches around the world, they sponsor events, drinks with money that not belongs to them or their companies but to their unpaid employees worldwide in the Philippines, China, Belarus...
On the Lighthouse IP Group website they write; "Lighthouse IP Group is showcasing its services on various trade shows throughout the world. We would be delighted to meet you on one of the following shows:"
Past shows Lighthouse Ip Group attended;
6 – 8 November 2012
Grand Elysée Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group presented at the European Patent Information Conference organised by the EPO in Hamburg. The topic of her presentation was: “An Asian IP Advantage with Lighthouse IP Group”
14 October — 17 October 2012
Andel’s Hotel, Berlin, Germany
Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group and VP Christa Deinumthe keynote speaker at the ICIC conference. The topic of his keynote speech was: The Recent Evolution and the Future Trends of Patent Landscape in China and Asia
Tuesday 09 October 2012, 18.00 – 20.00 (Free Entrance)
Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group British Library Business & IP Centre
Lighthouse IP Group presented a network evening at the British Library Business & IP Centre.
11 – 12 September 2012
China National Convention Center, Beijing, China with Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group
14 June 2012
The Carter Center, Georgia, USA, Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group and VP Christa Deinum
30 May — 1 June 2012
Renaissance Hotel, Manchester, United Kingdom with
VP Christa Deinum, Lighthouse Ip Group
28 April — 03 May 2012
Marriott Hotel, Denver, USA
19 April — 20 April 2012
Vienna, Austria
Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group and VP Christa Deinum presenting our Intelligent IP Monitoring service during the East meets West Conference.
16 April — 17 April 2012
Hotel Plaza, Nice, France
Willem Geert Lagemaat – CEO, Lighthouse IP Group will be presenting the conference final endnote on April 17th. The topic of this endnote will be: What Information Tools can you Imagine for the Future?
New conferences
II-SDV conference will take place in Nice, 15-16 April 2013
Lighthouse IP Group is Conference sponsor
Willem Geert Lagemaat, CEO Lighthouse IP Group will give a speech again, he indeed knows how to make money on the back of people in the Philippines, China, Belarus,...
The II-SDV meeting takes place in Nice in April 2013 for an intensive two days. Venue is the Hotel Plaza in central Nice. The meeting provides an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific, patent and technical information.
The meeting will be of interest to those who wish to update themselves and keep in touch with the leading edge of search engines for information search and analysis technologies; it will feature approximately 22 speakers for the two days. There will be an adjacent, focused exhibition to complement the conference programme.
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petrajvs
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Dec 18, 2012
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Join the group of 480 fired and unpaid employees
Join the group of employees that follow-up the complaint at DOLE, the Department of Labor
IT IS YOUR RIGHT !
Log into Facebook and follow the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/groups/282090581861759/?fref=ts
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petrajvs
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Dec 18, 2012
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After almost a half year 480 firesd BPO employees in Cebu are waiting for their salaries
480 people fired in Cebu and not paid.
Waiting since July for our salaries and 13th month
The Dutch owners; CEO-Willem Geert Lagemaat and VP-Christa Deinum did not our salaries and 13th month.
CEO-Willem Geert Lagemaat and VP-Christa Deinum who presented Intellectual Property Trends in Asia at ICIC2012 in Berlin did not pay our salaries and 13th month after firing 480 employees in Cebu, Philippines end july 2012.
Lighthouse IP Group CEO, Willem Geert Lagemaat, was one of the key speakers at the recent ICIC Conference for over 200 intellectual property professionals in Berlin. He spoke about the recent evolution and future trends of the patent landscape in China and Asia. An excerpt of his talk is given below.
Rise of China, Vietnam and Thailand in IP Market
The intellectual property markets of Korea and Japan are the core sectors that corporations in the West focus on. This is understandable due to their respective economic importance to the world economy. Nevertheless, the economies of China, Vietnam and Thailand are developing quickly. As a consequence, there is an increasing interest in the intellectual property being developed in each of these countries.
Interest in doing business in China
Lighthouse IP CEO Lagemaat and VP-Christa Deinum did not pay our salaries and 13th month after firing 480 employees, the Asian giant has systematically become more integrated into the worldwide intellectual property system. Besides, western companies show an increasing interest in doing business in China and see greater opportunity to trade effectively in the region.
Lighthouse IP Group owners, Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum did not pay salaries after firing 480 employees.
In fifteen years’ time, between 1985 and 2000, China published more than one million patents. Whereas in the first three quarters of 2012 China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has published nearly 940,000 patent applications, grants and utility models. This significant increase clearly shows the importance that is being placed upon IP in the country.
Business barriers in China
But, despite the volume of IP being published in China, there are still major barriers for companies wanting to do business in China, namely the language barrier; their legal system and court rulings which appear to favour local businesses, and the difficulty in enforcing intellectual property rights.
In China, Lighthouse IP Group is behind paying healtcare for + 300 employees for the last 3 years what result in serious issues for the China Lighthouse Ip Group employees. Willem Geert agemaat is the first to speak about Corporate Responsibility and honesty, until he has to pay himself, it's all just a show for him, only the money in Willen Geert his pocket and hs image to people around him counts. Ge doesn't care aout other people and cannot be trusted. Stay away from Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum is our advise, their not worth your trust !!
Yet, western organisations have reason to be optimistic about intellectual property in China, continued Lagemaat. The country is moving from a production-based economy towards one of innovation. The Chinese government heavily supports this movement with appropriate regulations and measurements. The government values IP and its potential for developing their economy more effectively than can be achieved solely from a production-based economy. This will take time, Lagemaat stated. He compared it to the evolution of the Japanese economy since the end of the Second World War which moved from being a production economy to an innovation economy.
Growth in chemical and pharmaceutical patents and grants in Vietnam
Beyond China, Vietnam’s economy is focusing its investment in IP in two distinct sectors of the market, namely chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Patent applications and grants in Vietnam are the predominant industries where they are protecting their inventions.
Global interest in Asian patent and trademark information bla bla bla, Lighthouse IP Group CEO, Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum are giving speeches around the world, they sponsor events, drinks but that's with money that belongs to their unpaid employees, a disgrace!
The volume of patent documents being published in Asia, continued Lagemaat, should not mask the fact that the quality of those intellectual property documents is sometimes questionable. Nonetheless, the global interest in what is being published by the Asian patent and trademark offices continues to build.
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petrajvs
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Dec 18, 2012
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No Happy Christmas for fired employees Lighthouse IP Group
No Happy Christmas for fired employees Lighthouse IP Group
Below article was published September 4, since then, we are still waiting for our money.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2012/09/04/dole-company-pay-employees-241004
Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) 7 is expected to issue an order to a company to pay 480 employees their unpaid wages and proportionate 13th month pay.
That, after Lighthouse IP Cebu reportedly failed to pay the employees P2.7 million in wages.
Dole tri-city field office supervisor Rogen Cumba said their agency received emailed complaints from employees last July 5 about the company’s failure to release their salaries following termination and completion of their projects.
Cumba said his office inspected the Lighthouse IP at the Mactan Export Processing Zone 2 last Aug. 8 and held two conferences with the management.
The company officials reportedly admitted they could not release the salaries of the employees because the funds from their main office, based in the Netherlands, had not arrived. “They are willing to pay. But they were unable to get funds from the mother company.”
Cumba is preparing an order directing the company to release the salaries and other benefits of the 480 terminated employees and is finalizing the list of employees who should be paid.
He said that once the order is received, the company will have 10 days to comply with it. Within the 10-day period, they also have the option to file a motion for reconsideration or make an appeal. He added that the order could be issued within the week.
The order will compel Lighthouse IP to release the unpaid wages of the employees for the period July 11 to 25 and July 26 to 31.
For now, he said the company has retained 50 employees to continue operations.
In a press statement yesterday, Lighthouse IP Group acknowledged “experiencing some financial difficulties.” But it said it “remains bullish in doing business in the Philippines.”
The company said they owe project-based employees salaries for one payday (as of July 30) and 13th month pay. The company said their contracts ended July 30.
“Lighthouse IP Group has executed a large data entry project in our local office in Cebu. Unfortunately, the project has proven to be a loss-making one, which has brought our organization into cash flow problems. We are currently resolving the matter and we planned on paying the outstanding salaries two weeks ago. Unfortunately, we are still recovering from the cash flow problems caused by this loss-making project.
Nevertheless, there is light at the end of the tunnel and we expect to be able to pay the salaries of our Cebu colleagues soon. Lighthouse Software Cebu, Inc. and Lighthouse IP Group are working closely with Dole to resolve this matter,” the company said.
“Resolving this issue has our highest priority and we trust it will be solved soon. We are very sorry for all the problems this is causing our local staff.”
In previous press launches, Lighthouse IP described the duties of its employees as data work, non-voice projects such as data enrichment, annotation, data entry, data mining, translations; as well human, human-edited machine and purely machine translations and offers virtual employees and software development service.
Late last year, they sought to hire additional employees to work on an international trademark database where they digitize and structure trademark data from 87 countries, kept in paper stacks since 1976.
A Facebook page contains several complaints from employees, calling on the management to pay up.
Follow the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/groups/282090581861759/ (log into FB first)
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petrajvs
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Dec 18, 2012
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Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum lied to 480 Cebu employees
The Dutch Willem Geert Lagemaat and Christa Deinum lied to 480 Cebu employees - no salaries paid only promised, and promised and promised again, almost a half year we wait for our salaries.
Department of Labor to Lighthouse IP Group: Pay employees
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2012/09/04/dole-company-pay-employees-241004
Dole orders Lighthouse IP Group to pay workers
http://cebu.businessguide.ph/lighthouse-ip-group/
Department of Labor to Lighthouse IP Group: Pay employees
http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/04/Dole_to_company_Pay_employees/
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