July 2018

Kuwaiti recruitment agencies required to deposit $10,000 for Filipino domestic workers

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Naser Al Wasmi The National | 23 July 2018 The Philippines is demanding that domestic worker agencies pay $10,000 dollars to recruit Filipinos in Kuwait. The money is intended as a guarantee for a safe return of employees to the Philippines in case of an emergency. The move comes after Kuwait and the Philippines agreed […]

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Crackdown on foreign workers hits M’sian businesses hard

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Today Online |23 July, 2018 KUALA LUMPUR – Rubber trees untapped, oil palm fruits left to rot and silent construction sites. These are the early consequences of the new Malaysian government’s aggressive crackdown on undocumented migrant workers that have left businesses reeling. The crackdown on illegal foreign workers is one of the few policies from

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A guide to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and its implications for the North

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Northern Policy Institute | 22 July 2018 From 2002 to 2012, the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada tripled from 101,078 to 338,221 as businesses increasingly made use of the program – sometimes as a way to access cheaper labour. As a result, the government introduced a series of reforms to the Temporary

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