10 April 2015, Kathmandu Post APR 10 – Earlier this week, Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al-Khulaifi, the Qatari Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, and his team came to Kathmandu to talk about the labour issues between Nepal and Qatar. Minister Al-Khulaifi was feted and offered high praise by many high-ranking Nepali officials. Among the many […]
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10 April 2015, Staffing Industry Analysis An association of global electronics companies voted to prohibit the charging of recruitment fees to workers, either by recruiters or directly by employers. The Electronics Industry Citizenship Council said excessive recruitment fees can lead to forced labor, trapping workers in debt to the labor broker or employment agency that recruited
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10 April 2015, Nepali Times We doubt the zero-cost agreement between Qatar and Nepal this week will come into force because there is too much money to be made on the blood, sweat and tears of Nepali workers by the politically-connected manpower mafia. For a country that is so dependent on overseas contract workers, the
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7 April 2015, Myanmar Times After a Russian trawler crewed in part by 42 Myanmar fishermen sank in a tragic disaster last week, the veil was lifted on a duplicitous recruitment scheme that has for years profited by illegally tricking labourers onto fishing boats, The Myanmar Times has learned. Two of the five Myanmar recruitment agencies responsible
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6 April 2015, Times of Oman Muscat: Bangladesh will explore options to activate a government-to-government recruitment process with Oman in the near future, said the Bangladesh state minister for foreign affairs. “In the coming joint commission meeting with the Oman government, which is supposed to be held this year in Oman, the possibilities to activate a government-to-government
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5 April 2015, Nepali Times Nepal and Qatar governments have vowed to crack down on manpower agencies that illegally charge money from the Qatar-bound Nepali migrant workers. “Nepalis need not pay a single rupee to go to work in Qatar,” said Tek Bahadur Gurung, Nepal’s state minister for labor. “Qatari companies that hire migrant workers
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31 March 2015, The National UAE ABU DHABI. Filipino workers being sent to non-existent jobs in Dubai have highlighted the desire of recruiters to increase profits through deception and circumventing the law, experts say. Thirty Filipinas who came to work in Dubai had fled their employers’ homes and sought refuge at a makeshift shelter inside
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