News articles from around the world on migrant labour recruitment.
By: Arafat Ara The Financial Express | 3 March 2017 The Bangladesh government has moved to fix a maximum ceiling of migration cost for Singapore-bound workers in a bid to check arbitrary charges by manpower recruiters, sources said. The expatriate welfare ministry is working to fix the cost based on a proposal made by the […]
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By Fayeka Zabeen Siddiqua and Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan The Daily Star | March 03, 2017 After three months as a migrant domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, Ejjatun Begum from Barisal realised one thing clearly – she had gotten herself into a trap. She finally understood that the local middleman, who had lured her with
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By: Aroonim Bhuyan IANS India Private Limited | 1 March 2017 Sourced through Yahoo News. Under its new foreign policy adopted last year, Taiwan is seeking to attract more expatriate workers, including from India, in both blue and white collar categories to meet a shortage of labour and talent. “Labour is a problem due to
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By Alan Travis The Guardian | 11 January 2017 Downing Street has moved to distance itself from a proposal by the immigration minister for a £1,000-a-year levy on every EU skilled worker recruited by British employers after Brexit. Robert Goodwill told peers that the “immigration skills levy” could be introduced for EU migrants and would
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The Independent | 24 February 2017 By: Ben Chapman More than 100,000 EU citizens left Britain in the three months after the EU referendum, new figures showed this week. New worker registrations from Poland are down 16 per cent year on year, Hungary down 14 per cent, and Slovakia down 20 per cent. After a
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By: CR Abrar The Daily Star | 23 February 2017 For many, migration is a route out of poverty and a pathway to live in dignity. It is an integral part of globalisation. The world community has recognised that migration can contribute in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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By Tamanna Sultana Dhaka Tribune | 15 February 2017 Why do so many Bangladeshi migrant workers get mistreated? Bangladesh is in its early stages of development, with very limited employment opportunities in the competitive job market. The less-educated job-seekers who fail to find jobs at home usually seek their fortune abroad. As a result, our
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KUWAIT: Even as a number of lawmakers called for the formation of a special temporary committee to study the demographic imbalance in the country, a government committee entrusted with studying the cancellation of the kafala (sponsorship) system is forging ahead to find a solution that will protect the rights of both employers and employees, achieve
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By Sandeep Singh Grewal Bahrain News | Wed, 15 Feb 2017 A PILOT project aimed at helping thousands of illegal workers in Bahrain regularise their status will be launched in April, according to a senior official. The first-of-its-kind initiative in the Middle East will feature such workers being able to sponsor themselves and work for
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Daily Tribune Bahrain |13 February 2017 Manama : Bahrain and India have reached to a preliminary agreement to scrap recruitment fees of Indian female domestic workers to Bahrain. Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) said in a statement yesterday that both sides have studied cancelling the financial guarantee term to recruit Indian housemaids in Bahrain and
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