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Electronics Group Bans Recruitment Fees to Workers

10 April 2015, Staffing Industry Analysis An association of global electronics companies voted to prohibit the charging of recruitment fees to workers, either by recruiters or directly by employers. The Electronics Industry Citizenship Council said excessive recruitment fees can lead to forced labor, trapping workers in debt to the labor broker or employment agency that recruited […]

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Belabouring the obvious: Editorial

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10 April 2015, Nepali Times We doubt the zero-cost agreement between Qatar and Nepal this week will come into force because there is too much money to be made on the blood, sweat and tears of Nepali workers by the politically-connected manpower mafia. For a country that is so dependent on overseas contract workers, the

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Trawler tragedy lifts veil on illegal recruitment

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7 April 2015, Myanmar Times After a Russian trawler crewed in part by 42 Myanmar fishermen sank in a tragic disaster last week, the veil was lifted on a duplicitous recruitment scheme that has for years profited by illegally tricking labourers onto fishing boats, The Myanmar Times has learned. Two of the five Myanmar recruitment agencies responsible

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Bangladesh to streamline hiring of workers with Oman help

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6 April 2015, Times of Oman Muscat: Bangladesh will explore options to activate a government-to-government recruitment process with Oman in the near future, said the Bangladesh state minister for foreign affairs. “In the coming joint commission meeting with the Oman government, which is supposed to be held this year in Oman, the possibilities to activate a government-to-government

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Nepal, Qatar vow crackdown

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5 April 2015, Nepali Times Nepal and Qatar governments have vowed to crack down on manpower agencies that illegally charge money from the Qatar-bound Nepali migrant workers. “Nepalis need not pay a single rupee to go to work in Qatar,” said Tek Bahadur Gurung, Nepal’s state minister for labor. “Qatari companies that hire migrant workers

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Filipinos in UAE speak out against deceptive recruitment

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31 March 2015, The National UAE ABU DHABI. Filipino workers being sent to non-existent jobs in Dubai have highlighted the desire of recruiters to increase profits through deception and circumventing the law, experts say. Thirty Filipinas who came to work in Dubai had fled their employers’ homes and sought refuge at a makeshift shelter inside

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Nepal, India labour supply to UAE goes under scanner

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28 March 2015, Emirates 24/7 UAE, IOM agree to conduct study on Labour Recruitment Industry The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the International Organisation for Migration have recently signed an agreement to conduct a field study about the Labour Recruitment Industry as per the framework of the Abu Dhabi dialogue, to develop an understanding of

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Rwanda: Governments Urged to Facilitate Free Movement of Labour

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24 March 2015, AllAfrica.com African governments should encourage and facilitate free movement of persons within the continent and provision of alternative legal channels of migration. This was the message at the opening of a three-day international conference on migration and labour mobility which opened in Kigali, yesterday. About 60 African regional economic communities are represented

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Temporary Foreign Workers: the revolving door

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23 March 2015, Canadian Labour Congress They come to Canada to fill jobs that employers cannot find Canadians to fill, they work, pay taxes, contribute to CPP and they put back into the local economy. These are Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW). The TFW program has existed for years. But now the government has announced

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India bans recruitment of nurses by private agents

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20 March 2015, Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The India government has issued an order yesterday banning overseas recruitment of nurses by private agencies stating that only an authorized government agency can conduct nursing recruitments. The order becomes effective from April 30, 2015. According to the government order, nursing recruitments to a foreign country from India can

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