November 2018 – Recruitment Reform

Recruitment of Migrant Workers In Asia: Public Service or Systematic Exploitation?

Asian regional report based on the baseline survey and research done by the Migrant Forum in Asia and research partners in 11 countries in Asia This is a pioneering Asian regional study on the recruitment situation, issues, and problems experienced by migrant workers in major countries of origin and destination, based on the perspective of […]

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The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor-visa programs, which in theory at least offer a legal pathway to

Saudi unemployment steady in Q2, foreign labour force down 290,000

Gulf Business | 22 October 2018 Saudi unemployment remained steady in the second quarter after increasing in the first three months of the year as foreign workers continued to leave the country. General Authority for Statistics figures showed the unemployment rate among citizens at 12.9 cent as unemployment among women rose from 30.9 per cent

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Japan’s Cabinet approves bill to introduce new visa categories for foreign workers, to address shrinking workforce

Japan Times | 2 November 2018 The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. “Creating a new residence status to accept foreign workers is of utmost importance as the nation’s

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India’s e-migrate website continues to hurt workers seeking Gulf jobs, say agents and labourers

Scroll.In | 22 October 2018 The government says that the decline in emigrants is because of a slowdown in the Gulf economy related to falling oil prices. But recruitment agents channelling workers to Gulf countries and prospective employees pin the blame elsewhere – on a digitisation initiative by the Union government that was meant to

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Reduce security deposit to RM50K: Employment agencies

Daily Express Malaysia |22 October 2018 There is a need to review the RM250,000 security deposit set for private employment agency licence under the Category C as stipulated in the Private Employment Agency Act 1981 (Amended 2017). Sabah Foreign Workers Employment Agency Association (Pappas) President Anthony Leong said majority of the private employment agencies in

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Embassy issues over 50,000 passports after amnesty offer

New Age Bangladesh | 21 October 2018 Hundreds of Bangladeshi workers who became undocumented in United Arab Emirates are availing amnesty offered by it since August 1. UAE’s amnesty ends on October 31. Migrant rights activist and Awaj Foundation director for migration Anisur Rahman Khan said that Bangladeshi workers recruited by Bangladeshi and Pakistani employers

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Japan to accept 50,000 workers from PH under new hiring rules

Rappler Philippines | 20 October 2018 MANILA, Philippines – More than 50,000 skilled workers from the Philippines have the chance to get employed in Japan in the next 6 years once the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe finalizes its new rules for giving temporary residence to foreign manual laborers. Japan’s parliament is set to

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