NIKKEI Asian Review | March 22, 2017 Percentage of guest talent far outpaces Japan’s TOKYO — In the competition to recruit much-needed foreign talent, South Korea’s work permit program is beating that of Japan’s system. In raw numbers, Japan’s 1.08 million foreign workers edge out South Korea’s 960,000. But South Korea’s population of 50 million […]
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By: John Cropley | March 16, 2017 The Daily Gazette A key federal program to admit foreign workers to the United States reached its quota this week, leading Lake George and resort areas nationwide to hope there will be enough seasonal workers to run their tourism industries. SUNY Adirondack hosted a job fair Wednesday and
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The Hindu 19 March 2017 Most of the ads do not follow the instructions of MoEA The Protector of Emigrants (PoE) has issued an advisory to media houses against publishing employment advertisements for foreign jobs without verifying the credentials of the recruitment agencies. The advisory assumes importance in the light of foreign recruitment rackets that
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By the Myanmar Times | 13 March 2017 Myanmar and Thailand signed a bilateral MOU to govern the labour migration between the two, especially from Myanmar to Thailand. The MOU provides a framework to facilitate regular labour migration by focusing more on admission procedures, prevention of irregular migration and employment, and repatriation of migrant workers,
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By: SM Najmus Sakib Dhaka Tribune | 9 March 2017 Rampant corruption by government officials is pushing up the visa processing cost for aspiring migrant workers by up to five times than the government-fixed rate, TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has claimed. “Nine out of every 10 migrant workers are victims of corruption,” he said, while
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Star Online Report Around 90 percent male migrant workers fell victim of corruption in 2016, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said today. “Destination country’s employers and recruiting agents with Bangladesh recruiting agents deal with the buying and selling of Visas,” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman alleged while replying to a query at a programme held at
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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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