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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Open Society Foundations: Bassina Farbenblum, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoletti EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is the first comprehensive study of migrant workers’ access to justice in their country of origin. Using the case study of Indonesian migrant workers who travel to work in the Middle East, it analyses the mechanisms through which those workers may access justice
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Open Society Foundations: Sarah Paoletti, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farbenblum EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Every month, nearly 16,000 Nepalis travel to the Gulf States for temporary work, and thousands more go to other countries in the Middle East. Much attention has been directed to the exploitation of low-wage migrant workers in the Middle East, where harms are
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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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