News articles from around the world on migrant labour recruitment.
16 November 2014, Gulf Times Philippine Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz will be in Doha for a three-day visit from November 21, to inaugurate the new Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) building, Ambassador Crescente Relacion told Gulf Times. The labour secretary will also have a dialogue with officials and members of various Filipino organisations in Qatar […]
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17 November 2014, The Daily Star Languishing in Iraqi city with insufficient food, water; ambassador says they might be sent back soon. The 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim to have been abducted by some locals are still passing their days in misery inside an old building in Najaf city of Iraq. The Bangladeshis were
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10 November 2014, Market Wired PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 10, 2014) – HP (NYSE: HPQ) today took a major step forward in expanding its leading supply chain program on preventing exploitative labor practices and forced labor. HP is the first company in the IT industry to require direct employment of foreign migrant workers in
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10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian national Lokesh Sapaliga’s horrifying experience in a Sarawak factory is
‘Slave Labour’ in Malaysia: Time to rethink migrant labour management Read More »
10 November 2014, República KATHMANDU, Nov 10: The International Relations and Labor Committee of the legislature-parliament has directed the government to ensure that transactions between manpower companies and aspirant workers are made through banking system. Concluding that the fees paid by aspirant workers to manpower agencies in cash is fueling malpractices, the committee meeting held
Recruitment fees to manpower firms only through banks soon Read More »
6 November 2014, Daily Express KOTA KINABALU: Indonesian workers are still the preferred workforce based on the experience of oil palm industry players in West Malaysia. East Malaysia Planters Association (Empa) Chairman Datuk Othman Walat said however, the association has no objection to any of its members trying out Bangladeshi workers in their plantation. “In
Indons still preferred in Sabah’s oil palm estates Read More »
2 November 2014, Colombo Gazette Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said Sri Lanka which took over the chair of the Colombo Process (CP) one year ago was of the view that if it were to make a difference and ensure that some real benefits would accrue to the
Lanka wants ethical labour recruitment Read More »
30 October 2014, IEEE Spectrum California has a migrant worker problem. Reading that statement you’d likely picture a farmworker from Mexico or Central America. But you’d be wrong. It’s migrant tech workers, holders of H-1B visas, mostly from India, who are being abused. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) together with NBC Bay Area have
Migrant Tech Workers Abused by Contract Labor Firms, Investigation Shows Read More »
27 October 2014, Center for Investigative Reporting Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies have hijacked a professional visa program, creating an underground system of financial bondage by stealing wages and benefits, even suing workers who quit. About 840,000 people from around the world work in the United States on temporary visas, intended
Job brokers steal wages, entrap Indian tech workers in US Read More »
26 October 2014, Dhaka Tribune The country will appoint a labour attaché at its embassy in Dhaka from the beginning of the next year. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will simplify the procedure of recruiting manpower from Bangladesh. To do it, the country will appoint a labour attaché at its embassy in Dhaka from the
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