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B.C. government to register migrant workers and their employers and recruiters

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The Vancouver Sun | 10 October 2018 The B.C. government is establishing a registry for migrant workers designed to protect them from exploitation by employers and recruiting agents. “Temporary foreign workers are vulnerable to abuse in the workplace, and it can be difficult for them to get help,” said B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains in […]

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Extortion and abuse: Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand

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Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 YANGON, Myanmar: A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Migrant labour – much of it from Myanmar – has propped up Thailand’s

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Employment agency and employee face 243 charges for advertising maids on Carousell

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The Straits Timnes | 4 October 2018 SINGAPORE – Employment agency SRC Recruitment and one of its staff were on Thursday (Oct 4) slapped with 243 charges for “selling” maids on online marketplace Carousell. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a statement that the advertisements were placed between Sept 1 and 17, and had

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Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Thursday (Oct 4) prosecuted SRC Recruitment and one of its Employment Agency (EA) employees, Erleena Mohd Ali, for “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDWs). SRC and Mdm Erleena face a combined 243 charges for an array of wrongdoing, which includes

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Danish government presents plan to recruit skilled foreign labour

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The Local dk | 3 October 2018 Minister for immigration and integration Inger Støjberg and employment minister Troels Lund Poulsen presented Wednesday a 21-point programme aimed at smoothing the way for companies who want to attract skilled workers from abroad. The programme seeks to “make it easier and less bureaucratic for Danish companies to attract

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Denmark – Government proposes plans to ease recruitment of skilled foreign labour

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Staffing Industry Analysts | 4 October 2018 The Danish government has proposed an initiative to make it easier and less bureaucratic for Danish companies to attract and hire foreign workers. The initiative, presented yesterday by the Danish Ministry of Employment, presents a 21-point program aimed at smoothing the way for companies that want to attract

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Workers complain about local agencies overcharging fees

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Asia Times 5 October 2018 Three Filipino domestic workers have filed complaints at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office against two Hong Kong employment agencies for alleged overcharging fees. The two unnamed agencies were the Hong Kong counterparts of the Manila-based Spear International Manpower, sunwebhk.com reported, citing Esther C Bangcawayan, an officer with the Mission for

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Saudi job recruitment process must be shored up Published: 00:00, Oct 07,2018

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New Age Bangladesh 7 October 2018 The situation of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia has remained troublesome for quite some years, because of issues in Saudi Arabia and irregularities in Bangladesh. It is high time that Bangladesh stepped up its diplomatic efforts to resolve the prickly migration issues with Saudi Arabia to ensure full

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