Nikkei Asian Review | 4 October 2018 TOKYO — The Japanese government will provide assistance to small and midsize businesses employing or planning to employ foreigners, as the country seeks to secure enough labor to keep its economy humming. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will open some 30 multiligual help centers around the […]
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New Straits Times | 3 October 2018 KUALA LUMPUR: The government has agreed to further extend the work permits for skilled foreigners who have been working here for more than 10 years, under Temporary Working Pass, with condition of yearly permit renewal, for up to three years. Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran said the levy
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The Himalayan Times | 1 October 2018 Nepal-The government has formally started the integrated software of Foreign Employment Information Management System (FEIMS) from today. According to the ministry, the system has a software, which can be accessed by all concerned with foreign employment services, including MoLESS, manpower companies, line offices under MoLESS, orientation centres, Department
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Kathmandu Post 2 October 2018 Recruiting agencies have launched a protest against the government’s latest measures to manage the foreign employment sector. The Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA), the umbrella organisation of manpower companies, has threatened to shut down all their services if the government does not roll back its decisions. Accusing the
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The Daily Star | 3 October 2018 Some 60,000 Bangladeshis, whose travel to Malaysia became uncertain after the country suspended the online recruitment system on September 1, have been cleared for migration to the Southeast Asian country. “Malaysian High Commission in Dhaka started issuing visas yesterday [October 1],” an official of the Bureau of Manpower
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The Daily Star | 2 October 2018 The new Malaysian government has moved to reform the country’s foreign workers’ recruitment and management policy, aiming to bring discipline to the sector. To coordinate the overall policies and the management of migrant workers, the new government, led by Mahathir Mohamad, has formed an independent committee which will
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Arab Times | 3 October 2018 The report looks at the real face of labor in Kuwait by monitoring the administrative and legal aspects and the positive and negative changes and to what extent they affect the lives of migrant workers ‘non-Kuwaitis’ and the impact of all this on the Kuwaiti society, the country, economic
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Bahrain News | 4 October 2018 HUNDREDS of recruitment agencies in Bahrain have been urged to regularise their status or face having their licences suspended by a government watchdog. “The idea is to ensure that this business is regulated properly, in accordance with international standards,” LMRA chief executive Ausamah Al Absi told the GDN. “We
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France 24 | 4 October 2018 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. The Myanmar brokers — or their sub-agents — scour rural villages for workers and transfer all
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The Colombo Gazette | 4 October 2018 The Government of Qatar will soon be simplifying the migrant work visa application process that will expedite the visa processing for Sri Lankan migrant workers. The service, which will first be introduced in Sri Lanka and then rolled out in other key South Asian cities will be made
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