Apple Inc., 2015 Apple’s Supplier Responsibility Report is relevant to the Recruitment Reform Campaign’s call for Zero Recruitment Fees for migrant workers. The report includes a a discussion on recruitment fees. Please check page 18 under: Eliminating Recruitment Fees and Bonded Labour under the chapter on Labour and Human Rights. The following is stated: “To protect […]
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17 September 2015, Scoop Independent News Workplace Relations and Safety and Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse and the Philippines Secretary of Labour and Employment Ms Rosalinda Baldoz have today signed a bilateral Arrangement on the recruitment and treatment of Filipino migrant workers. “New Zealand greatly values the contribution Filipino workers make to New Zealand’s labour force
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15 September 2015, The Financial Express Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur have agreed to integrate private recruiters with the existing G to G (government to government) arrangement to speed up manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. As part of the step, a Memorandum of Understanding on G to G-plus will be signed today (Tuesday), said expatriates’ welfare minister
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15 September 2015, Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — An Ethiopian diplomat has refuted claims that domestic labor recruitment from his country would recommence, saying that salaries would have to increase before any recruitment deal could be made. Liaison Officer at the Ethiopian Embassy, Temsegen Omar, confirmed that his country has rejected calls for a return of
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14 September 2015, Times of Oman Nepal has stopped issuing labour permits to migrant workers whose air tickets and visa fees are not being paid for by their prospective employers in Oman, a senior official of the Nepal Embassy in Muscat said. Speaking to the Times of Oman, the official said the embassy of Nepal
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7 September 2015, Kathmandu Post Free-visa-free-ticket is a newly enforced provision of the Government of Nepal that came into effect from July 8 this year. It basically obligates the employers from labour receiving countries to bear cost of visa processing and air ticket to hire workers from Nepal. Until now, most migrant workers took hefty
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4 September 2015, The Toronto Star After lobbying by oil companies, the federal government allowed Alberta to recruit foreign workers faster than before. Gil McGowan was elected president of the Alberta Federation of Labour in 2005, just as oilsands development was starting to heat up. And he has been in the hot seat ever since.
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2 September 2015, Khaleej Times The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs on Monday issued an order directing changes in the system. The Indian government has modified its online recruitment system after a plethora of complaints from foreign employers, workers and recruitment agencies. Due to glitches in the ‘eMigrate system’, thousands of blue-collar Indian workers lost
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2 September 2015, The Daily Star Recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have decided to stop hiring Bangladeshi domestic workers, claiming that a supply crunch has raised costs, says Arab News. According to a report the local English daily ran yesterday, Ibrahim Al-Megheimish, a recruitment expert, said there were too few Bangladeshi workers seeking employment, which
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