The Statesman | 5 November 2018 Paid to be a slave Part 1 Why are people still paying agencies and looking for a “better life” in other countries? The Gulf states are rich, very rich. Per-capita income is higher in that region than in most parts of the world. Yet all of these countries, with […]
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Rappler | 6 November 2018 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) launched on Tuesday, November 6, its overseas Filipino worker (OFW) e-card, a membership card that provides easier access to government benefits. The e-card can be used for OWWA services such as welfare programs, scholarship applications, training programs, and other social
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New Age Bangladesh | 5 November 2018 Though Bangladeshi workers migrate to 165 countries for jobs, Bangladesh signed bilateral agreements with only two countries, MOU with 11 and MOC with one. Absence of formal arrangements with most of the destination countries make ‘our workers vulnerable abroad,’ officials and rights activists told New Age. Bangladesh has
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Vietnam Net | 5 November 2018 Tran Tien Duy, deputy head of Nhat Huy Khang Company, said labour demand increases near the year-end. According to Duy, this is when Japan usually starts their fiscal year and the country prioritises Vietnamese labourers. “The opportunities for Vietnamese labourers in Japan are open with the two countries’ relationship
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Today Online | 5 November 2018 SINGAPORE — Forget about Singapore’s foreign worker curbs easing up — at least on the low-skilled end. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat says the policy to limit the inflow of cheap non-Singaporean labour has forced companies to invest in automation and other productivity-boosting measures, and the island nation doesn’t
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News Hub New Zealand | 5 November 2018 The horticulture and viticulture industries are set to benefit from the Government’s decision to allow more overseas seasonal workers. The Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme will increase the cap on foreign workers by 1750 to 12,850. The scheme, which has been in place since 2007, allows employers
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Khmer Times | 5 november 2018 There were about 1.8 million documented and undocumented migrant workers working overseas in the first six months of this year, an increase of nearly 20,000 when compared to the same period last year, according to the National Committee for Counter Trafficking. The NCCT noted in a report issued last
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Kuensel Online | 3 November 2018 Bhutan — Starting this month, work permits for foreign workers in four occupations will not be renewed and issued according to labour ministry officials. The move is in line with the Regulation on Recruitment and Management of Foreign Workers, 2012. A notification from the Department of Labour listed carpenters
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Published by Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) Singapore and Liberty Shared The report examines the issue of forced labour (FL) among Singapore’s migrant domestic worker (MDW) population. Enaged in essential care and household work, live-in domestic workers are recognized as particularly vulnerable to labour and human rights violations. As a community, domestic workers are
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Japan Times | 4 November 2018 Some 40,000 foreign workers are expected to be accepted in the first year the new visa categories go into effect, with the total rising to 250,000 after five years, government sources said Saturday. The government, which submitted a related bill to revise the immigration control law Friday, does not
