9 August 2014, The Business Recorder ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Labour of Saudi Arabia has issued more than 220,000 visas to recruitment companies and establishments in both the private and public sector, said Abdulaziz Al-Harbi, director-general of employment. He said around 176,000 visas were given to companies in the public and private sector, while the […]
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8 August 2014, Australian Ageing Agenda Ethno-specific aged care provider Fronditha Care has been given the green light to sponsor 60 overseas personal care workers in the first agreement to be struck with the Federal Government. It comes amid growing calls for personal care workers to be added to the Skilled Occupations List. The three-year
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4 August 2014, Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Kingdom will soon start recruiting housemaids from Vietnam and Nepal, according to Deputy Labor Minister Mofarej Al-Haqbani. “Agreements to this effect will be signed with the two countries before the Haj season in October,” he told Okaz/Saudi Gazette on Sunday during an Eid party organized by his
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5 August 2014, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand A group of Filipino carpenters recruited to work in Christchurch’s rebuild had no work when they arrived and had to rely on charity to get by. Recruitment and labour hire company Adecco promised fulltime jobs to a group of about 12 workers coming from the Philippines to work on
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1 August 2014, Bangkok Post The Labour Ministry is ready to import Bangladeshi labourers to work in the fishing industry if there is still a worker shortage following registrations of migrant workers from three neighbouring countries. Permanent secretary for labour Jeerasak Sukhonthachart yesterday said Bangladesh’s ambassador to Thailand Kazi Imtiaz Hossain recently met him to
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1 August 2014, EKantipur.com KATHMANDU, AUG 01 – The government has decided to make it mandatory for recruitment agencies and workers to present themselves at the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) during signing of the labour contract. The provision, which aims at curbing fraudulent activities involved in the recruitment process, is expected to come into
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2 August, 2014, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand A raft of new labour-hire companies have set up in post-quake Christchurch, prompting concerns from unions and audits from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). The labour-hire business is exploding as the rebuild reaches momentum, with at least 17 new agencies opening in the past three years.
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31 July 2014, Colin Perkel, Global News TORONTO – Allowing Canadian farmers to choose whether they want men or women from Mexico to work for them as seasonal agricultural workers amounts to gender discrimination, a prominent union is arguing. In a complaint this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers union is calling on the
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Insan Association, Lebanon – July, 2014 INTRODUCTION Years ago the issue of Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in Lebanon began to surface in international media. This came as a result of efforts by civil society organizations, including Insan Association, which have worked to shed the light on the multiple violations of Migrant Domestic Workers rights. Migrants
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30 July 2014, SFGate Gov. Brown and Mexican officials signed agreements on economic cooperation and migrant workers this morning, wrapping up Brown’s three-day trade and investment trip to Mexico. On migrant workers, the two sides will look to create “a voluntary pilot program to help prevent abuses in the recruitment of Mexican H-2 temporary workers
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