Aljazeera | 20 December 2019 Blue-collar migrant workers continue adding to the labour force of the oil-rich Gulf, skewing long-standing efforts by its leaders to increase the percentage of its own citizens in the workforce, data of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) shows. Figures released this month in a 78-page study, ILO Global Estimates […]
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Reuters | 19 December 2019 KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Under pressure to crack down on labor abuses, Malaysia is moving to eliminate middlemen who charge millions of foreign workers exorbitant recruitment fees, leaving them saddled with debt and vulnerable to exploitation. In a bid to address this, recently Malaysia struck a deal with
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Antara News | 15 December 2018 Jakarta (ANTARA News) – The Indonesia Economic and Trade Office (IETO) in Taipei signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Taipei Economic and Trade Office (TETO) in Jakarta on the recruitment, placement, and protection of Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan. IETO Chief Didi Sumedi signed the MoU with TETO
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Japan Times | 15 December 2018 Days after Japan enacted a law introducing a foreign-worker program to bolster a labor force shrinking due to the aging population, a study showed it could struggle to compete with other developed countries to attract residents from overseas. The Gallup survey showed that the country’s 126 million population would
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Kathmandu Post 15 December 2018 Nepal-The government has blacklisted a number of foreign employers in countries that are major destinations for Nepali migrant workers. The Department of Foreign Employment has blocked 65 foreign employers or companies from Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab of Emirates for violating their respective agreements with Nepali workers.
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ABS-CBN News | 11 November 2018 MANILA – A recruitment agency in Manila has been ordered to halt recruitment operations after Filipino truck drivers it sent to Europe were found to be “working and living in substandard conditions.” In a statement Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration issued
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The Nation | 15 November 2018 The Japanese government presented on Wednesday the estimated maximum number of foreign workers to be accepted in 14 envisaged business fields over the five years from fiscal 2019, releasing such figures as 60,000 people in nursing care, 53,000 in eating out, 40,000 in construction and 36,500 in agriculture. The
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Channel News Asia | 13 November 2018 SINGAPORE: An employment agent who took to online marketplace Carousell to advertise maids on behalf of her agency SRC Recruitment was on Tuesday (Nov 13) fined S$20,000. Erleena Mohd Ali, 41, is the first to be prosecuted for putting up placement postings online. Erleena, who is now unemployed,
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