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DOLE chief orders raps vs agency over Canada recruitment scam

4 March 2015, Interaksyon MANILA, Philippines — Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz ordered Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief Hans Leo Cacdac to investigate and file charges against officials and staff of a firm allegedly offering non-existent caregiver jobs in Canada. The order came after Baldoz was informed by labor attaché Leonida Romulo of the Philippine Overseas […]

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Recruitment firms resist regulation on transparency

1 March 2015, eKantipur.com KATHMANDU, MAR 01 – Foreign employment agencies have disregarded the new provision that requires them to conduct all their financial transactions through banks. Officials working at the frontline desk of the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) said none of the recruiting firms have complied to the new regulation introduced on January

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Migrant worker broker fees ‘exorbitant’: Indonesia

1 March 2015, Taipei Times The biggest problem for Indonesian workers in Taiwan are the “exorbitant” brokerage fees, which are unacceptable, Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers official Agusdin Sabiantoro said on Friday. Sabiantoro said that a major problem for his nation’s migrant workers has been the excessively high fees manpower brokers

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HOME: The Singapore Budget Disregards the Interests of Migrant Workers

27 February 2015, The Online Citizen Local Non-government Organsiation, Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (H.O.M.E.) issues its response towards Budget 2015. HOME welcomes the announcement that the foreign worker levy hike will be deferred for a year, and levy concessions have been made for families which hire foreign domestic workers. However, we urge the government

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Isolation from technology and social networks hikes risk of labor trafficking

26 February 2015, USC News Migrant workers isolated from technology and social networks are more vulnerable to human trafficking, forced labor and exploitation, according to a new report released today by the Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “Technology and Labor Trafficking in a Network

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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs

25 February 2015 Tech Investor News, The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-European data scientists, senior developers, cyber security specialists and product managers. The MAC is an independent body

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Saudi Arabia: Women ‘turning down attractive maids’

25 February 2015, BBC News Women in Saudi Arabia are insisting that their housemaids aren’t good-looking when it comes to recruitment, it seems. Recruitment companies in the kingdom claim that wives are demanding to see photographs of prospective staff to ensure maids arriving from Morocco or Chile are not beautiful, Saudi Arabia’s Sabq newspaper,quoted by

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Recruitment of female domestic workers cost more than males

24 February 2015, Arab News Female domestic workers registered the highest recruiting costs on the Ministry of Labor’s Musaned web page, with an increase of more than ten times the costs to recruit men in other professions, according to the latest data posted on the website. Costs to recruit a Vietnamese female worker stood at

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