28 March 2015, Emirates 24/7 UAE, IOM agree to conduct study on Labour Recruitment Industry The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the International Organisation for Migration have recently signed an agreement to conduct a field study about the Labour Recruitment Industry as per the framework of the Abu Dhabi dialogue, to develop an understanding of […]
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24 March 2015, AllAfrica.com African governments should encourage and facilitate free movement of persons within the continent and provision of alternative legal channels of migration. This was the message at the opening of a three-day international conference on migration and labour mobility which opened in Kigali, yesterday. About 60 African regional economic communities are represented
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23 March 2015, Canadian Labour Congress They come to Canada to fill jobs that employers cannot find Canadians to fill, they work, pay taxes, contribute to CPP and they put back into the local economy. These are Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW). The TFW program has existed for years. But now the government has announced
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20 March 2015, Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The India government has issued an order yesterday banning overseas recruitment of nurses by private agencies stating that only an authorized government agency can conduct nursing recruitments. The order becomes effective from April 30, 2015. According to the government order, nursing recruitments to a foreign country from India can
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15 March 2015, Taipei Times LIFTING A BAN:Minister of Labor Chen Hsiung-wen said officials from Taiwan and Vietnam were meeting to discuss new regulations for Vietnamese workers Taiwan recruited 10,906 Vietnamese workers during the first two months of this year, making it Vietnam’s largest labor export market, according to the latest official data from Hanoi.
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10 March 2015, Taipei Times Negotiations with Myanmar on introducing Burmese nationals as agricultural and industrial workers could be finalized within two months, the Ministry of Labor said yesterday. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also seen as potential new sources of labor to mitigate an expected shortfall of migrant workers, Workforce Development Agency director Liu
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8 March 2015, Eurasia Review In response to the unmet demand for labor in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, South Korea allowed the entry of foreign labor migrants from countries such as the Philippines in 1993. In Southeast Asia, the Philippines has the second largest number of migrants in South Korea next
3 March 2015, Scoop.co.nz GENEVA / KUALA LUMPUR (2 March 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro urged* the Malaysian Government to improve the prevention of trafficking in persons and the protection of human rights of its victims at the end of her first official visit to the country. There is an
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4 March 2015, Interaksyon MANILA, Philippines — Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz ordered Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief Hans Leo Cacdac to investigate and file charges against officials and staff of a firm allegedly offering non-existent caregiver jobs in Canada. The order came after Baldoz was informed by labor attaché Leonida Romulo of the Philippine Overseas
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1 March 2015, eKantipur.com KATHMANDU, MAR 01 – Foreign employment agencies have disregarded the new provision that requires them to conduct all their financial transactions through banks. Officials working at the frontline desk of the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) said none of the recruiting firms have complied to the new regulation introduced on January
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