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Hiring of Foreign Workers: Malaysia wants to revert to G2G

In a major policy shift, the new Malaysian government wants to reintroduce G2G, a state-level labour recruitment system, to eliminate middlemen in the recruitment that has always been marred by corruption and exploitation. “We don’t want G2G Plus. Any arrangement should be government-to-government [G2G],” Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said on Sunday, reports Malaysian […]

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‘We only take RM9,000 as agents’

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PETALING JAYA: Only RM9,000 from about RM20,000 paid by Bangladeshi workers went to 10 authorised recruitment agents operated by a syndicate. A Bangladeshi businessman who claimed that he was the spokesman for the 10 companies based in Dhaka said the rest of the money was distributed to middlemen, including those in villages. He told The

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Security firms in a bind over freeze on Nepali guards

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PETALING JAYA: The security services industry has been badly affected by the Nepalese government’s decision to bar their migrant workers from working in Malaysia. Security Services Association of Malaysia president Datuk Seri Mustapa Ali told The Star that the Nepalese government’s decision had led to more than 5,000 vacancies in the industry. He said the

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Foreign Workers: Nepal slams the door, unhappy with company monopoly

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PETALING JAYA: The government of Nepal has barred its workers from coming to Malaysia with immediate effect. The move comes as the Nepalese government expressed its unhappiness with “restrictive” immigration requirements its workers faced before they can be gainfully employed in this country. This includes having to go through a private company for security and

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‘Agents to blame for huge number of illegal foreign workers’

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By Teh Athira Yusof, Aliza Shah Straits Times | 29 July 2018 ENFORCEMENT agencies that vowed to rid the country of all illegal immigrants must recognise the actual number out there to address this problem once and for all, said those in direct contact with labour-intensive economic sectors. The number, they said, was far more

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Nepal Govt. Gives ‘Nod’ to Malaysian Job Aspirants

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Providing a breath of relief for Nepal migrant workers to Malaysia, the Nepal Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is now granting workers permission to fly to Malaysia lifting the existing ban! According to a statement issued by MoLESS, migrant workers who received visas before May 16, 2018 can proceed to their work

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Kleptocrats of Kathmandu and Kuala Lumpur: Politicians and recruiters in Nepal and Malaysia collude to loot poor Nepali migrant workers

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Ramu Sapkota in Kathmandu with Alyaa Alhadjri in Kuala Lumpur Nepali Times | 20 July 2018 A deeply-rooted nexus of politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats in Nepal and Malaysia have looted more than Rs5 billion over the past five years from vulnerable Nepali migrant workers desperate to seek work in Malaysia. Nepal’s Labour Minister Gokarna Bista

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Kuwaiti recruitment agencies required to deposit $10,000 for Filipino domestic workers

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Naser Al Wasmi The National | 23 July 2018 The Philippines is demanding that domestic worker agencies pay $10,000 dollars to recruit Filipinos in Kuwait. The money is intended as a guarantee for a safe return of employees to the Philippines in case of an emergency. The move comes after Kuwait and the Philippines agreed

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Crackdown on foreign workers hits M’sian businesses hard

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Today Online |23 July, 2018 KUALA LUMPUR – Rubber trees untapped, oil palm fruits left to rot and silent construction sites. These are the early consequences of the new Malaysian government’s aggressive crackdown on undocumented migrant workers that have left businesses reeling. The crackdown on illegal foreign workers is one of the few policies from

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A guide to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and its implications for the North

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Northern Policy Institute | 22 July 2018 From 2002 to 2012, the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada tripled from 101,078 to 338,221 as businesses increasingly made use of the program – sometimes as a way to access cheaper labour. As a result, the government introduced a series of reforms to the Temporary

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