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Immigration pact needed to thwart dodgy brokers targeting Nepalese heading to Japan, experts say
Japan Times | 8 FEbruary 2019 KATHMANDU – As Japan prepares to welcome a wave of new foreign workers, experts are cautioning Nepalese over unethical immigration brokers and urging their government to conclude an agreement with Japan for greater tran
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS BEWARE! New Definition of “Recruitment Fees” Clarifies What Constitutes Human Trafficking-Related Activities – And It May Not Be What You Think
JD Supra | 8 February 2019 Can requiring that a job applicant obtain and pay for a passport photo make a U.S. government contractor run afoul of human trafficking rules? Potentially “yes” under a new final rule clarifying what constitutes human traffi
Strawberry Farm Under Fire for Worker-Recruitment Fees
Court House News Service | 29 January 2019 MIAMI (CN) — Fending off labor claims from 54 migrant workers, a lawyer for a Florida strawberry farm told 11th Circuit that the company is not liable for the illegal fees its pickers paid a recruiter. The hear
Action Research on Recruitment Trends
The cost of migration: What low-skilled migrant workers from Pakistan pay to work in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
This report presents the findings of a survey on migration expenses that Pakistani workers paid to secure jobs in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The focus is on low-skilled migrants, who are the most vulnerable because of their low educational
Working Paper on Operational Parameters to Assess Fair Recruitment Practices
International Labour Organisation, 2016 There are different types of practices to support better recruitment of migrant workers. They generally vary according to context, regulation, stakeholders and the type of organisation or system that is used to orga
Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico
Jennifer Gordon, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY “I contend that a key goal of efforts to regulate recruitment should be to reshape the incentives of the entities at the top of the product or service supply chain, so that in turn they become the for