Ashwani Sukthankar, Global Workers Justice Alliance 2012 Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System, presented by Global Workers Justice Alliance. Visas, Inc provides […]
21 July 2014, Nigel Wilson, International Business Times Qatar’s government has announced labour market reforms designed to improve the treatment of foreign workers, although some of its most controversial practices remain in place. New measures include restrictions on working outdoors in the hottest hours during the summer and a rule that companies must open bank
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13 July 2014, Big Project Labour recruitment processes in Qatar are “unethical” and need to be dealt with in accordance with government support, as per a report recently prepared for Qatar Foundation, a government, not-for-profit body in the country. ‘Migrant Labour Recruitment to Qatar’ was authored for Qatar Foundation by Dr Ray Jureidini, director for
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12 July 2014, AME info Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) has released a comprehensive report examining foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The ‘Migrant Labour Recruitment to Qatar’ report, specially commissioned as part of the Qatar Foundation Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative, is a 160-page document aimed at addressing the current issues surrounding
10 July 2014, Two Circles.net Riyadh : Saudi Arabia has started issuing recruitment visas for domestic maids from India under a new employment contract finalised by the two nations, media reported Thursday. Saudi Deputy Labour Minister Mufarrij Al-Huqbani said in a statement that the joint Saudi-Indian joint committee on labour issues finalised the recruitment contract
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21 July 2014, Channel News Asia MANILA: Philippine authorities are holding Singaporean Yvonne Phua, whom they suspect to be an illegal recruiter. She was arrested during a raid on an alleged human trafficking den in Manila. Speaking to Channel NewsAsia, Ms Phua, 55, says she is innocent of the charges filed against her. The Philippine
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21 July 2014, Business Standard The age of Indian domestic workers looking for employment in Saudi Arabia has been set between 25 and 50 years under a new employment agreement finalised by the two countries, media reported. “Our agreement with India sets the age of the domestic workers coming to the Kingdom (Saudi Arabia) at
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19 July 2014, All Africa Minister of the Interior Comrade Abba Moro has promised that the federal government will fulfill its promise to the victims of the failed immigration recruitment exercise last year. He said in a statement by his special assistant on media, George Udoh, yesterday in Abuja that the delay in not implementing
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20 July 2014, EIN News Desk Aluva (Kerala, July 20: Workers from Kerala who have returned from strife torn Iraq, held a protest on Saturday against the Indian recruitment agency M.P Dominic and Co. for duping them of their money. A protest was held outside the company’s office by 17 workers who had returned to
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25 March 2014, Leader-Post The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) is a made-in-Saskatchewan program that began as a pilot project in 1998 and is operated under an agreement with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Success of the program is not only shown in numbers, but also by the many immigrants’ and their employers’ success stories. Westcan
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