7 October 2014, Manila Standard The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) suspended a recruitment agency for charging placement fees higher than what was allowed by government regulations. POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac ordered the grounding of Lexus Inc. which has deployed 20 Filipino factory workers in Taiwan. The workers filed separate complaints of against the […]
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7 October 2014, Arab News The annual recruitment of nearly 1.2 million foreign workers has hampered the Kingdom’s nationalization initiatives, said Saudi economists and experts, while urging the government to review its recruitment policy. “We recruit about 1.2 million foreign workers annually at a time when we have more than a million Saudi job seekers,”
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The Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants has announced that his next report to the Human Rights Council will focus on international labour recruitment. He intends to evaluate the following: Current recruitment practices The impact of these practices on the human rights of migrants Current initiatives for improving recruitment practices Practical recommendations to
1 October 2014, The Nation & Foreign Policy in Focus Excerpt: In Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, more than 157 million people live on about 57,000 square miles of land. That’s a population greater than Russia’s living in a country smaller than the state of Illinois. We heard over
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30 September 2014, People’s World Three times each month, dozens of women gather in dusty courtyards in rural towns in Manikganj, Dinazpur or other districts across Bangladesh to learn all they can about the only means by which they can support their families: migrating to another country for work. In leading these information sessions, the
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29 September 2014, Saudi Gazette via Yahoo News The head of the national committee for recruitment said relying on Indonesians is not enough to meet the huge demand for domestic workers in the Kingdom. “Indonesian authorities are insisting on high salaries for domestic workers in addition to personal information of their would-be sponsors, and we
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30 September 2014, GulfNews.com Manama: Kenya has unexpectedly announced a decision to freeze the recruitment of its workers to the Middle East, Saudi and Kenyan media have reported. Citing numerous mistreatment claims, the Kenyan labour ministry has also suspended the operations of all the recruitment agencies in the country and stopped their operations with immediate
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