News articles from around the world on migrant labour recruitment.
By Reuters | 8 August 2018 LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people recruited for permanent jobs in Britain grew at its slowest pace in nine months in July, reflecting record low unemployment and a shortage of migrant workers from the European Union, a recruiters’ body said on Wednesday. A monthly survey by the Recruitment […]
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By Rahimi Yunus The Malaysian Reserve | 8 August 2018 The government, following the dispute between Nepali workers and Bestinet Sdn Bhd, is formulating a government-to-government (G2G) approach, which includes axing middlemen involvement in the hiring process of foreign workers. Human Resources (HR) Deputy Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar (picture) said the government has initiated the
Govt draws up G2G approach for foreign workers recruitment Read More »
By: Robin Agustin Free Malaysia Today | 6 August 2018 PETALING JAYA: The country’s largest employer and labour groups have urged the government to stop the outsourcing of foreign worker recruitment processes, which they say have pushed up costs and resulted in abuses. Speaking to FMT, Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan and Malaysian
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ByL Zoie O’Brien | Mailonline 6 August 2018 Ten thousand people applied for a job picking fruit at UK farms this summer – and two of them were British. Seasonal workers are flocking to farms to make money while the sun shines, yet the physical demand, long hours and often low pay is not enough
Kota Kinabalu: Employers and migrant workers backed the call by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh for the Government to abolish all agents dealing with foreign workers. They said it is logical to allow employers and foreign workers to deal direct with the Immigration Department when applying for the necessary sponsorships like work permits
Bosses, migrant workers back Harris’ proposal Read More »
By Tom Peterkin | Scotsman.com Thirty SNP politicians representing rural areas are demanding action from the UK Government to tackle Brexit-fuelled labour shortages that have left Scotland’s soft fruit farms in crisis. The politicians have written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove with a series of questions and criticising the UK
SNP demands answers from Javid and Gove on berry picking crisis Read More »
CTV Montreal | 3 August 2018 A restaurant owner in Quebec City says he’s had to search as far as Mexico to find workers to address the province’s labour shortage. Quebec’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years, and with 90,000 jobs available, there’s fierce competition to recruit. “2017 was like the
Restaurant owners look to Mexico to fill jobs due to Quebec’s labour shortage Read More »
The Star Online | 23 June 2018 SEPANG: Bangladeshi workers who arrived here recently said their families made great sacrifices to raise the RM20,000 each to find jobs in Malaysia. The workers told The Star that their families sold cattle and farmland, and even borrowed money at high interest rates to secure employment here. Even
Families in Bangladesh sold farms and borrowed money to raise RM20K workers fee Read More »
By: Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan New Age Bangladesh | 3 August 2018 A Bangladeshi housekeeper is required to pay $1,800 equivalent to Tk 1. 51 lakh as the cost of migration to Hong Kong, though employers bear the cost of migration. Recruiting agencies in Bangladesh illegally realize the migration costs for ‘our housemaids’ migrant right
Agencies illegally take $1,800 for each Read More »
2 August 2018 | Malaymail.com KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Amidst the recent Nepali migrant worker scam, the Nepal government is ready to continue discussion on the recruitment, employment and repatriation of workers agreement with Malaysia, and also to safeguard the welfare and protect the rights of its workers here. Nepal’s Charge d’Affaires in Malaysia,
Nepal ready to negotiate terms of labour with Malaysia Read More »
