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Bangladesh: 90% male migrant workers victims of corruption in 2016: TIB

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Star Online Report Around 90 percent male migrant workers fell victim of corruption in 2016, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said today. “Destination country’s employers and recruiting agents with Bangladesh recruiting agents deal with the buying and selling of Visas,” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman alleged while replying to a query at a programme held at […]

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No 10 distances itself from minister over levy on skilled EU workers

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By Alan Travis The Guardian | 11 January 2017 Downing Street has moved to distance itself from a proposal by the immigration minister for a £1,000-a-year levy on every EU skilled worker recruited by British employers after Brexit. Robert Goodwill told peers that the “immigration skills levy” could be introduced for EU migrants and would

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Brexit: UK businesses are already facing recruitment crisis as Polish workers head home

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The Independent | 24 February 2017 By: Ben Chapman More than 100,000 EU citizens left Britain in the three months after the EU referendum, new figures showed this week. New worker registrations from Poland are down 16 per cent year on year, Hungary down 14 per cent, and Slovakia down 20 per cent. After a

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Protecting Our Workers Abroad

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By Tamanna Sultana Dhaka Tribune | 15 February 2017 Why do so many Bangladeshi migrant workers get mistreated? Bangladesh is in its early stages of development, with very limited employment opportunities in the competitive job market. The less-educated job-seekers who fail to find jobs at home usually seek their fortune abroad. As a result, our

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Bahrain: Work permit allowing self-sponsorship to be launched in April

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By Sandeep Singh Grewal Bahrain News | Wed, 15 Feb 2017 A PILOT project aimed at helping thousands of illegal workers in Bahrain regularise their status will be launched in April, according to a senior official. The first-of-its-kind initiative in the Middle East will feature such workers being able to sponsor themselves and work for

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