24 July 2014, Zefry Dahalan, FMT News PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s policy on foreign workers is fraught with Umno crony recruitment agencies ripping off millions of ringgit from foreign workers, Johor DAP deputy chairman S Ramakrishnan said today. Ramakrishnan added that instead of formulating a long-term comprehensive foreign labour policy, Umno politicians were busy plotting more […]
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Ashwani Sukthankar, Global Workers Justice Alliance 2012 Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System, presented by Global Workers Justice Alliance. Visas, Inc provides
21 July 2014, Nigel Wilson, International Business Times Qatar’s government has announced labour market reforms designed to improve the treatment of foreign workers, although some of its most controversial practices remain in place. New measures include restrictions on working outdoors in the hottest hours during the summer and a rule that companies must open bank
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13 July 2014, Big Project Labour recruitment processes in Qatar are “unethical” and need to be dealt with in accordance with government support, as per a report recently prepared for Qatar Foundation, a government, not-for-profit body in the country. ‘Migrant Labour Recruitment to Qatar’ was authored for Qatar Foundation by Dr Ray Jureidini, director for
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12 July 2014, AME info Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) has released a comprehensive report examining foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The ‘Migrant Labour Recruitment to Qatar’ report, specially commissioned as part of the Qatar Foundation Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative, is a 160-page document aimed at addressing the current issues surrounding
10 July 2014, Two Circles.net Riyadh : Saudi Arabia has started issuing recruitment visas for domestic maids from India under a new employment contract finalised by the two nations, media reported Thursday. Saudi Deputy Labour Minister Mufarrij Al-Huqbani said in a statement that the joint Saudi-Indian joint committee on labour issues finalised the recruitment contract
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21 July 2014, Channel News Asia MANILA: Philippine authorities are holding Singaporean Yvonne Phua, whom they suspect to be an illegal recruiter. She was arrested during a raid on an alleged human trafficking den in Manila. Speaking to Channel NewsAsia, Ms Phua, 55, says she is innocent of the charges filed against her. The Philippine
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21 July 2014, Business Standard The age of Indian domestic workers looking for employment in Saudi Arabia has been set between 25 and 50 years under a new employment agreement finalised by the two countries, media reported. “Our agreement with India sets the age of the domestic workers coming to the Kingdom (Saudi Arabia) at
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