Recruitment agencies protest labor bill; workers rally in favor

6 July 2016, China Post Six major migrant recruitment agencies protested outside the Legislative Yuan Tuesday morning against an amendment that would cancel requirements for migrants to leave Taiwan every three years, which the agencies claim will cost Taiwanese employers billions of New Taiwan dollars. Opponents to the amendment were met in front of the […]

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Working Paper on Operational Parameters to Assess Fair Recruitment Practices

International Labour Organisation, 2016 There are different types of practices to support better recruitment of migrant workers. They generally vary according to context, regulation, stakeholders and the type of organisation or system that is used to organise recruitment. These indicative operational parameters have been designed to facilitate assessment of migrant recruitment practices in the framework

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Research Series: Recruitment Cost

1 June 2016, Transient Workers Count too The great majority of transnational migrant workers pay money in order to obtain jobs in other countries. The charges are often exorbitant. Most of the money goes to middlemen: agents in their own country or in destination countries, local recruiters and training centres (which often function as middlemen

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Baldoz urges public to support POEA’s online anti-illegal recruitment campaign

11 May 2016, Philippine Information Agency Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday urged the public to support the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s social media-based anti-illegal recruitment (AIR) campaign. “Since illegal recruiters are using the internet, especially through the social media, in victimizing jobseekers, the POEA has stepped up its AIR drive by harnessing the

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Government will not reverse the ‘free visa, free ticket’ provision

25 April 2016, The Himalayan Times After a month-long protest against the police raid in some manpower firms, the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies held talks with the Ministry of Labour and Employment to sort out the disputes. Manpower firms had suspended operations as a protest against the police raid and only resumed operations

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