28 August 2014, The Cambodia Daily A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. The 50 workers, who were part of a group of […]
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27 August 2014, Gulf Times Officials of labour recruitment agencies said they have stopped recruiting domestic workers from certain African countries in view of the spread of the Ebola virus in those places, local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported. They said domestic workers from other countries are subjected to health examination before and after recruitment
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26 August 2014, The Times of India On April 24, 2014, during a time of almost daily media reports of employers abusing the temporary foreign worker program (TFWP), CBC News released audio of a leaked internal McDonald’s Canada telephone conference in which its chief executive officer stated “… the fact of the matter is we’re
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25 August 2014, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. A former top Indonesian official in charge of migrant worker protection has demanded an investigation into the police chief of East Nusa Tenggara province, or NTT, over indications of police complicity in the alleged trafficking of migrant workers, both within the country and abroad. “I suspect that there’s a
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25 August 2014, The Daily Star Lebanon When Lucy met a representative of a Jordanian employment agency in the Philippines, the official promised her a sales position in Jordan with a salary increase after two months, allowing Lucy to send money back to her family overseas. Lucy, a Filipino migrant worker in Amman, Jordan, requested
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26 August 2014, Press.co.nz Migrant workers in New Zealand are at risk of working in slavery-like conditions, a Human Rights Commission diversity forum has heard. Organisers of the two-day forum, which finished in Christchurch yesterday, said the treatment of refugee and migrant workers in this country was a “top human rights priority”. In a discussion
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21 August 2014, Arab News Many expat families in the Kingdom continue to express concern over the increasing price of housemaid services offered by labor recruitment agencies. Demand continues to soar as recruitment agencies in the Kingdom face a major shortage in the number of domestic maids. Riyadh-based labor recruitment agency Saudi Manpower Services (SMASCO),
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22 August 2014, The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 200 Cambodian migrant workers who were scammed by their broker and then abandoned south of Bangkok earlier this week are among the latest victims falling between the cracks of an ill-defined labour registration system, according to rights experts. The 180 Cambodian migrants were taken to southern Thailand
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