June 2014

Monty: Immigration reform vital for America’s competitive edge

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26, June 2014, Chron One year ago today, the U.S. Senate passed the first major piece of immigration reform legislation since the Reagan administration. That same day, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed a much more focused, but very important measure, called the SKILLS Visa Act, which would provide much-needed updates to our nation’s high-skilled visa system. However, neither […]

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Canadian government revamps the temporary foreign worker programme

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23 June 2014, The Lawyer With the government’s focus on ‘Canadians First’ for Canadian jobs, the requirements to hire temporary foreign workers were revamped to make the hiring of foreign workers, and in particular low-skilled/low-wage foreign workers, more difficult for employers. For employers that utilise labour market opinions (now known as labour market impact assessments

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Recruitment agencies back ILO decent work convention

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17 November 2011, Sun Star LOCAL and overseas recruitment industries yesterday expressed support for the immediate ratification of the Internal Labor Organization’s (ILO) convention on decent work for domestic workers or C 189. They added they are “one with the government in pushing efforts to uplift the conditions and ensure decent work for kasambahays or

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Recruitment firm gets second suspension from POEA

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25 June 2014, GMA News A recruitment agency suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration got into deeper trouble after its president admitted his company had an unlicensed firm doing actual recruitment.POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac on Tuesday said he ordered a second case lodged against Memere International Recruitment Company Inc., after its president paid

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Race to recruit

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24 June 2014, The New Civil Engineer Consultants are competing to fill roles amid a growing shortage of geotechnical engineers, finds Jon Masters. Demand for experienced geotechnical engineers has remained strong in recent years, buoyed by work overseas, as well as the commercial building and energy sectors. With the re-emergence of growth in infrastructure in

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“Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity”

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Fay Faraday, Metcalfe Foundation, September 2012 In the past decade, Canada’s labour market has undergone a significant shift to rely increasingly on migrant workers who come to Canada from around the globe on time-limited work permits to provide labour in an expanding range of industries. Since 2000, the number of migrant workers employed in Canada

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“Profiting from the Precarious: How Recruitment Practices Exploit Migrant Workers”

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Fay Faraday, Metcalfe Foundation, April 2014 Over the past decade, Canadian employers have increasingly demanded access to a “flexible” workforce of transnational migrant workers. Canadian laws and policies have responded, speeding the flow of workers to Canada with precarious temporary immigration status. Since 2000, the population of temporary migrant workers in Canada has more than

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Nurses’ experiences of recruitment and migration from developing countries: A phenomenological approach

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Paul H. Troy, Laura A. Wyness, Eilish McAuliffe: Human Resources for Health 2007, 5:15 ABSTRACT Background: There is growing concern globally at the current flows of nurse migration, particularly from low-income to middle and high-income countries. Recruitment practices of many countries such as Ireland are thought to be fuelling this rate of migration. This paper

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“Foreign Ministry’s help sought to solve Filipino recruitment issue”

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25 June 2014, Arab News The Labor Ministry will approach the Foreign Affairs Ministry to sort out obstacles in recruiting Filipino domestic workers including contractual difficulties faced by Saudi recruiters in the Philippines. Labor Ministries of the two countries had signed an agreement earlier this year to resume recruitment of the Filipino domestic workers. Mufrej

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