September 2018 – Page 8 – Recruitment Reform

Qatar: End All Migrant Worker Exit Visas: New Law Falls Short of Labor Reform Pledges

Human Rights Watch |6 September 2018 (Beirut) – The bill that Qatar’s emir signed on September 4, 2018 now allows foreign workers the right to leave the country but excludes several key groups of workers and falls short of Qatar’s reform pledges over the last year, Human Rights Watch said today. Qatar, which is hosting […]

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Qatar lifts exit permit system for migrant workers

Al Jazeera | 5 September 2018 Doha, Qatar – Qatar’s amendment to the residency law to allow most migrant workers to leave the country without an exit visa has been welcomed as a “huge step” by the International Organization for Labour (ILO). With this new law, migrant workers covered by the Labour Code would be

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Tokyo wants to let foreign housekeepers stay up to 5 years

Nikkei Asian Review | 5 September 2018 TOKYO — The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has proposed to the national government that foreign housekeepers be allowed to work five years in Japan, up from the current three years. Tokyo authorities believe this change would enhance the work environment of housekeepers from abroad and attract more of them

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Guidelines adopted to streamline workers migration to Lebanon

New Age Bangladesh | 5 September 2018 The government has adopted the guidelines for sending workers to Lebanon.The three-page guides made it mandatory for local recruiting agencies to select the workers registered with the database of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry officials told New Age that the

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In Qatar, World Cup workers toil on tourist visas

Asia Times | 5 September 2018 Qatar, the host of the 2022 World Cup, has gone to great lengths to assure the international community labor conditions are improving for workers. But on the ground, foreign laborers told Asia Times they are still working on tourist visas, unable to benefit from landmark labor reforms – or

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Legal framework needed for recruitment agencies

New Age Bangladesh | 5 September 2018 For most of the expatriate workers who come from a comparatively poorer background, mostly from rural areas, the migration cost is too high, even, sometimes, beyond their means. But job-seekers continue to be cheated by the so-called human resources business organisations and their associates, who charge them more

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Qatar Lifts Controversial Exit Visa System for Most Workers

Reuters | 4 September 2018 DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar amended its residency laws on Tuesday to allow most foreign workers to leave the country without exit permits from their employers, a provision which labor rights groups have long said should be abolished. Doha is keen to show it is tackling allegations of worker exploitation as

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Syndicate of 14 recruiting agencies blamed

New Age Bangladesh | 4 September 2018 A cartel of 14 recruiting agencies chosen by the government of Bangladesh for sending workers to Singapore has been blamed for increasing the migration costs. The syndicate compels each worker to pay at least Tk eight lakh for migrating to Singapore though the Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and

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