Bernama | 11 August 2016 IPOH: The government will announce the new policy on recruitment of foreign workers on Tuesday, Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said. He said the policy, which will be more systematic, was formulated to ensure that the recruitment of foreign workers would be done in line with market demands. “The new […]
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An Ethical Recruitment Lead Auditor Course was recently held in Quezon City, Philippines from 30 July to 3 August 2018. The program was organized by Verite South East Asia and Fair Hiring Inc. Migrant Forum in Asia as the lead of the Open Working Group on Labour Migration and Recruitment participated in the program. The
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By Pan Tze-yu and Elizabeth Hsu Focus Taiwan | 7 Aug 2018 Taipei, Aug. 7 (CNA) Taiwan’s National Development Council (NDC) has completed its drafting of a new economic immigration act that targets three categories of foreign talent — professionals, mid-level skilled workers, and Taiwanese expatriates and their offspring. The Cabinet-level council released the draft
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By Reuters | 8 August 2018 LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people recruited for permanent jobs in Britain grew at its slowest pace in nine months in July, reflecting record low unemployment and a shortage of migrant workers from the European Union, a recruiters’ body said on Wednesday. A monthly survey by the Recruitment
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By Rahimi Yunus The Malaysian Reserve | 8 August 2018 The government, following the dispute between Nepali workers and Bestinet Sdn Bhd, is formulating a government-to-government (G2G) approach, which includes axing middlemen involvement in the hiring process of foreign workers. Human Resources (HR) Deputy Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar (picture) said the government has initiated the
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By: Robin Agustin Free Malaysia Today | 6 August 2018 PETALING JAYA: The country’s largest employer and labour groups have urged the government to stop the outsourcing of foreign worker recruitment processes, which they say have pushed up costs and resulted in abuses. Speaking to FMT, Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan and Malaysian
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ByL Zoie O’Brien | Mailonline 6 August 2018 Ten thousand people applied for a job picking fruit at UK farms this summer – and two of them were British. Seasonal workers are flocking to farms to make money while the sun shines, yet the physical demand, long hours and often low pay is not enough
Kota Kinabalu: Employers and migrant workers backed the call by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh for the Government to abolish all agents dealing with foreign workers. They said it is logical to allow employers and foreign workers to deal direct with the Immigration Department when applying for the necessary sponsorships like work permits
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By Tom Peterkin | Scotsman.com Thirty SNP politicians representing rural areas are demanding action from the UK Government to tackle Brexit-fuelled labour shortages that have left Scotland’s soft fruit farms in crisis. The politicians have written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove with a series of questions and criticising the UK
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CTV Montreal | 3 August 2018 A restaurant owner in Quebec City says he’s had to search as far as Mexico to find workers to address the province’s labour shortage. Quebec’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years, and with 90,000 jobs available, there’s fierce competition to recruit. “2017 was like the
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