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Labor Ministry warns against unlicensed recruitment offices

3 August 2015, Saudi Gazette in Yahoo News The Ministry of Labor has warned citizens and other clients against dealing with unlicensed recruitment offices and said they should approach offices registered with the ministry’s Musanid website for recruitment of domestic workers, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Abdullah Al-Olayyan, director general of the ministry’s branch in […]

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PHL, Israel eye labor pact for Pinoy caregivers

27 July 2015, GMA News Online Philippine and Israel officials are pushing for the early approval of a bilateral labor agreement that will benefit more or less 20,000 Filipino caregivers in the Middle Eastern country. A statement from the Philippine Embassy in Israel said Ambassador Nathaniel G. Imperial met with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and

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Recruitment agencies’ protest labelled ‘sham’

26 July 2015, eKantipur KATHMANDU, JUL 26 – Scores of foreign employment agencies were secretly receiving work permits from the government while their umbrella organisation, Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (Nafea), was enforcing “indefinite strike” barring services to hundreds of migrant workers each day, the Post has learnt. Around one hundred recruiting agencies have

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Provision to be enlisted in labour pacts

19 July 2015, Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, JUL 19 – In a bid to institutionalise the newly introduced provision of free visa and ticket, the government has planned to mention “minimum cost recruitment” in all bilateral labour agreements it signs with the major labour receiving countries. Senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Employment claim that

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Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico

Jennifer Gordon, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY “I contend that a key goal of efforts to regulate recruitment should be to reshape the incentives of the entities at the top of the product or service supply chain, so that in turn they become the forces driving compliance by the recruiters below. Likewise, recruiters at the top

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Re-regulating the Private Power of Labor Brokers

Karl Flecker & Teresa Healy, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY This publication “explore[s] a range of initiatives showing potential to effectively uphold, monitor and enforce adherence to labor regulation for workers employed under bilateral temporary migration schemes. Here we highlight two types of interventions intended to address rogue practices of labor brokers. First, we examine the

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Govt decision to waive visa fee, airfare gets vote of confidence from workers

9 July 2015, Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, JUL 09 – As much the government decision to waive visa fee and air fare from the workers visiting the Gulf states and Malaysia has enraged the foreign employment agencies in the country, it has also brought equal measure of joy and relief among the aspiring migrant workers and

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Causes of and potential redress for high recruitment and migration costs in Bangladesh

ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative, 24 June 2015 Study on Bangladesh’s efforts to make international recruitment cost effective, transparent, and consistent by bringing into force a variety of measures. Regulatory governance of international recruitment is the crux of the challenges associated with international labour migration. This study suggests that Bangladesh has been trying to make international recruitment

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