21 December 2015, Prothom Alo Bangladesh will have to wait more to send ‘regular workers’ to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the labour recruiting companies of that country are still working on ‘redesigning’ their recruitment process. Both the countries are, however, hopeful of export of ‘large scale’ Bangladeshi workers, including more skilled manpower, to […]
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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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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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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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Migrant workers pay an equivalent of two years’ salaries in fees in their home countries to unscrupulous recruiters and agencies to come work in Canada. To pay these fees, entire families go into debt. Often times, when workers arrive here, work conditions and wages are not as they were promised or agreed to. With families
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Agence France Presse, The Daily Star Lebanon DOHA: World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under international criticism over working conditions for migrant workers, said recruitment agencies in Asia were the main party to blame for any abuse. A report commissioned by the Qatar Foundation chaired by the ruling emir’s mother charged that the rights of migrants,
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23 June 2014, National News Bureau of Thailand BANGKOK, 22 June 2014 (NNT) -The Secretary General of the Labor Ministry said that the ministry has met with licensed private recruitment agencies to explain its solution to the migrant worker problem issued by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and Department of Employment at
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Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, August 2012 The Middle East remains one of the most sought-after and competitive labour markets in the world. Here, the supply of labour overwhelmingly outweighs demand, making it extremely difficult to control recruitment practices. Migrant workers, many of whom are fully aware of the risks involved, are willing to pay a stiff