News articles from around the world on migrant labour recruitment.
14 June 2014, Leader-Post He was too sick to eat, and Min Min Chan’s chest ached with each breath he sucked. It didn’t matter: The Thai captain warned him to get back on deck and start hauling fish onto the trawler or be tossed overboard. As a 17-year-old slave stuck in the middle of the […]
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17 July 2014, Arab News There is no mandatory minimum wage for Indian domestic workers in the new recruitment scheme, Ahmed Al-Fuhaid, deputy labor minister for international affairs, told Arab News on Tuesday. “This is an open market and the Indian government has not placed any binding conditions in terms of monetary compensation, but fair
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17 July 2014, eKantipur The Nepali Embassy in Qatar has banned 55 recruitment agencies from supplying workers to Qatar for charging higher fee than the maximum amount fixed by the government and failing to ensure committed salary and works. “We have barred the agencies from sending migrant workers and have rejected their demand letter,” said
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20 July 2014, The Daily Star, Bangladesh Returning from Iraq with empty hands, 19 Bangladeshi workers today staged a sit-in in front of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment since this morning, demanding compensation from their recruitment agencies. The workers along with eight others went to Iraq through four Bangladeshi recruitment agencies between January
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21 July 2014, James M. Dorsey, Hürriyet Daily News A long-awaited Qatar Foundation report recommends a radical overhaul of the labor recruitment system in Asian labor exporting countries as well as the Gulf state that expects to host the 2022 World Cup. The report however stops short of calling for the abolition of Qatar’s widely
17 July, 2014 – SBS, AAP Critics say the plan to allow foreign workers to access temporary visas to work on oil rigs would have allowed migrant workers to be exploited at the expense of Australian jobs. The Coalition planned to remove a requirement put in place by the Gillard government which would force oil
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17 July 2014, The Straits Times The Migrant Workers’ Centre made several critical points about fairness for migrant workers (“Greater protection and care for migrant workers needed”; last Saturday). The recruitment process is particularly arduous for workers in the construction and marine sectors, and charges from agents, middlemen and training centres often come up to more
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16 July 2014, Edi Hardum & Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. The manpower ministry has stripped 17 recruitment agencies of their permits following their attempts earlier this month to send as many as 87 migrant workers to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “We’ll coordinate with police at the Soekarno-Hatta airport to collect
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17 July 2014, Laignee Barron, Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan, The Phnom Penh Post Almost all of the men from Banteay Chhmar commune in Banteay Meanchey province are gone, swept back over the border to Thailand even more suddenly than their brief homecoming last month. Nearly 380 of the commune residents, mostly men, had returned from
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Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Market Wired, 16 July 2014 TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 16, 2014) – The Ontario government is recognizing migrant worker abuse at the hands of recruiters by re-introducing Bill 146, but real protections for migrant workers are still missing says the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC). A law announced today
