Kota Kinabalu: Employers and migrant workers backed the call by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh for the Government to abolish all agents dealing with foreign workers. They said it is logical to allow employers and foreign workers to deal direct with the Immigration Department when applying for the necessary sponsorships like work permits […]
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By Tom Peterkin | Scotsman.com Thirty SNP politicians representing rural areas are demanding action from the UK Government to tackle Brexit-fuelled labour shortages that have left Scotland’s soft fruit farms in crisis. The politicians have written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove with a series of questions and criticising the UK
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CTV Montreal | 3 August 2018 A restaurant owner in Quebec City says he’s had to search as far as Mexico to find workers to address the province’s labour shortage. Quebec’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years, and with 90,000 jobs available, there’s fierce competition to recruit. “2017 was like the
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The Star Online | 23 June 2018 SEPANG: Bangladeshi workers who arrived here recently said their families made great sacrifices to raise the RM20,000 each to find jobs in Malaysia. The workers told The Star that their families sold cattle and farmland, and even borrowed money at high interest rates to secure employment here. Even
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By: Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan New Age Bangladesh | 3 August 2018 A Bangladeshi housekeeper is required to pay $1,800 equivalent to Tk 1. 51 lakh as the cost of migration to Hong Kong, though employers bear the cost of migration. Recruiting agencies in Bangladesh illegally realize the migration costs for ‘our housemaids’ migrant right
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2 August 2018 | Malaymail.com KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Amidst the recent Nepali migrant worker scam, the Nepal government is ready to continue discussion on the recruitment, employment and repatriation of workers agreement with Malaysia, and also to safeguard the welfare and protect the rights of its workers here. Nepal’s Charge d’Affaires in Malaysia,
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In a major policy shift, the new Malaysian government wants to reintroduce G2G, a state-level labour recruitment system, to eliminate middlemen in the recruitment that has always been marred by corruption and exploitation. “We don’t want G2G Plus. Any arrangement should be government-to-government [G2G],” Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said on Sunday, reports Malaysian
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PETALING JAYA: Only RM9,000 from about RM20,000 paid by Bangladeshi workers went to 10 authorised recruitment agents operated by a syndicate. A Bangladeshi businessman who claimed that he was the spokesman for the 10 companies based in Dhaka said the rest of the money was distributed to middlemen, including those in villages. He told The
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PETALING JAYA: The security services industry has been badly affected by the Nepalese government’s decision to bar their migrant workers from working in Malaysia. Security Services Association of Malaysia president Datuk Seri Mustapa Ali told The Star that the Nepalese government’s decision had led to more than 5,000 vacancies in the industry. He said the
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PETALING JAYA: The government of Nepal has barred its workers from coming to Malaysia with immediate effect. The move comes as the Nepalese government expressed its unhappiness with “restrictive” immigration requirements its workers faced before they can be gainfully employed in this country. This includes having to go through a private company for security and
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