By the Myanmar Times | 13 March 2017 Myanmar and Thailand signed a bilateral MOU to govern the labour migration between the two, especially from Myanmar to Thailand. The MOU provides a framework to facilitate regular labour migration by focusing more on admission procedures, prevention of irregular migration and employment, and repatriation of migrant workers, […]
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By: SM Najmus Sakib Dhaka Tribune | 9 March 2017 Rampant corruption by government officials is pushing up the visa processing cost for aspiring migrant workers by up to five times than the government-fixed rate, TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has claimed. “Nine out of every 10 migrant workers are victims of corruption,” he said, while
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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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By: Arafat Ara The Financial Express | 3 March 2017 The Bangladesh government has moved to fix a maximum ceiling of migration cost for Singapore-bound workers in a bid to check arbitrary charges by manpower recruiters, sources said. The expatriate welfare ministry is working to fix the cost based on a proposal made by the
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By Fayeka Zabeen Siddiqua and Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan The Daily Star | March 03, 2017 After three months as a migrant domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, Ejjatun Begum from Barisal realised one thing clearly – she had gotten herself into a trap. She finally understood that the local middleman, who had lured her with
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By: Aroonim Bhuyan IANS India Private Limited | 1 March 2017 Sourced through Yahoo News. Under its new foreign policy adopted last year, Taiwan is seeking to attract more expatriate workers, including from India, in both blue and white collar categories to meet a shortage of labour and talent. “Labour is a problem due to
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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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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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