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Muhyiddin: Proposed multi-tier foreign worker levy system to be implemented next year

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The Star Online | 24 October 2018 KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed multi-tier levy system for foreign workers is expected to be implemented by next year, said Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. He said the government was meeting with all the relevant sectors to determine the exact quantum of levies for all industries. “We have […]

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14 Japanese industries said to be eager to hire foreign workers under new visa status

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Japan Times | 23 October 2018 Fourteen business sectors are keen to accept foreign workers under a new residence status that the government aims to introduce in April next year, informed sources said Tuesday. The fourteen sectors are: restaurants, hotels, nursing care, building cleaning, agriculture, fishery, food and beverage, materials processing, industrial machinery, electronics and

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B.C. tables law to allow Temporary Foreign Worker employer registry

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The Star Vancouver | 23 October 2018 VANCOUVER—B. C. Minister of Labour Harry Bains tabled Tuesday the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act in the B.C. legislature, which he says will fulfil the government’s promise to create a registry of employers and recruitment agencies active in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. If the act receives royal

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Commentary: Instead of robots or commodities, why not treat foreign domestic workers like fellow human beings?

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Channel News Asia | 21 October 2018 SINGAPORE: In early October this year, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a local employment agency, with “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDW). The agency was found to have placed advertisements on the online marketplace Carousell which is typically used to buy and sell new and second-hand

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Recruitment of Migrant Workers In Asia: Public Service or Systematic Exploitation?

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Asian regional report based on the baseline survey and research done by the Migrant Forum in Asia and research partners in 11 countries in Asia This is a pioneering Asian regional study on the recruitment situation, issues, and problems experienced by migrant workers in major countries of origin and destination, based on the perspective of

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The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor-visa programs, which in theory at least offer a legal pathway to

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Saudi unemployment steady in Q2, foreign labour force down 290,000

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Gulf Business | 22 October 2018 Saudi unemployment remained steady in the second quarter after increasing in the first three months of the year as foreign workers continued to leave the country. General Authority for Statistics figures showed the unemployment rate among citizens at 12.9 cent as unemployment among women rose from 30.9 per cent

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Japan’s Cabinet approves bill to introduce new visa categories for foreign workers, to address shrinking workforce

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Japan Times | 2 November 2018 The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. “Creating a new residence status to accept foreign workers is of utmost importance as the nation’s

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