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Bangladesh sets sights on recruitment brokers to curb abuse and trafficking

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Thomson Reuters Foundation | 11 February 2019 DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh is planning to sideline unscrupulous recruitment brokers who dupe or exploit workers they send abroad by compiling a list of certified agents as record numbers of its citizens spend large sums of money to secure jobs overseas. The scheme could lower the […]

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Japan to toughen controls on brokers for foreign workers as it prepares to bring in blue-collar labor

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Japan Times | 30 January 2019 The government is planning to strengthen regulations on brokers who collect large sums from foreign nationals seeking to work in Japan as the country prepares to bring in blue-collar workers from overseas under new visas. According to a draft plan compiled by the labor ministry, the government aims to

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30,000 female workers sent to KSA without training in 2018

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New Age Bangladesh | 8 February 2019 In 2018, about 30,000 female housekeepers were sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without imparting any training at technical training centres. Out of 73,713 female workers sent to the KSA in 2018, according to available data 44,352 were imparted housekeeping training. Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry

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Poor service and dodgy practices blight Hong Kong’s domestic helper hiring agencies, says consumer watchdog as it urges authorities to crack down

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South China Morning Post | 15 My 2019 The Labour Department should take more action to tackle domestic helper hiring agencies that provide a poor service to employers, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged. The Consumer Council received around 200 complaints on such agencies each year, chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said on Wednesday, in

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Immigration pact needed to thwart dodgy brokers targeting Nepalese heading to Japan, experts say

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Japan Times | 8 FEbruary 2019 KATHMANDU – As Japan prepares to welcome a wave of new foreign workers, experts are cautioning Nepalese over unethical immigration brokers and urging their government to conclude an agreement with Japan for greater transparency in movements of migrant workers. In April, Tokyo will introduce a new program to accept

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS BEWARE! New Definition of “Recruitment Fees” Clarifies What Constitutes Human Trafficking-Related Activities – And It May Not Be What You Think

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JD Supra | 8 February 2019 Can requiring that a job applicant obtain and pay for a passport photo make a U.S. government contractor run afoul of human trafficking rules? Potentially “yes” under a new final rule clarifying what constitutes human trafficking under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”). Since 2015, the U.S. government has prohibited

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