Canadian government revamps the temporary foreign worker programme

23 June 2014, The Lawyer With the government’s focus on ‘Canadians First’ for Canadian jobs, the requirements to hire temporary foreign workers were revamped to make the hiring of foreign workers, and in particular low-skilled/low-wage foreign workers, more difficult for employers. For employers that utilise labour market opinions (now known as labour market impact assessments […]

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Race to recruit

24 June 2014, The New Civil Engineer Consultants are competing to fill roles amid a growing shortage of geotechnical engineers, finds Jon Masters. Demand for experienced geotechnical engineers has remained strong in recent years, buoyed by work overseas, as well as the commercial building and energy sectors. With the re-emergence of growth in infrastructure in

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“Foreign Ministry’s help sought to solve Filipino recruitment issue”

25 June 2014, Arab News The Labor Ministry will approach the Foreign Affairs Ministry to sort out obstacles in recruiting Filipino domestic workers including contractual difficulties faced by Saudi recruiters in the Philippines. Labor Ministries of the two countries had signed an agreement earlier this year to resume recruitment of the Filipino domestic workers. Mufrej

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International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)

Read the full text of the Convention Here Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990 Preamble The States Parties to the present Convention, Taking into account the principles embodied in the basic instruments of the United Nations concerning human rights, in particular the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,

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ILIGAL NA SILA | POEA cancels license of 63 recruitment agencies

2 March 2014, Interaksyon MANILA – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has cancelled the permit of 63 recruitment agencies in its continuing drive to weed out unscrupulous and recalcitrant licensed agencies from its list. POEA chief Hans Cacdac enumerated them as: ABC MANILA INTERNATIONAL INC. AISIS INTERNATIONAL MANPOWER INC. AL-ABEER MANPOWER SERVICES INC. AL MUSTAQBAL

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