17 April 2015, The Straits Times Opinion Piece by Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, President, Transient Worker Count Too (TWC2), Singapore I WELCOME the perceptive and forceful comments made by manpower correspondent Toh Yong Chuan on the subject of migrant workers being crammed into premises where their lives are at risk should a fire break out (“Take action […]
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6 April 2015, Times of Oman Muscat: Bangladesh will explore options to activate a government-to-government recruitment process with Oman in the near future, said the Bangladesh state minister for foreign affairs. “In the coming joint commission meeting with the Oman government, which is supposed to be held this year in Oman, the possibilities to activate a government-to-government
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10 March 2015, Taipei Times Negotiations with Myanmar on introducing Burmese nationals as agricultural and industrial workers could be finalized within two months, the Ministry of Labor said yesterday. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also seen as potential new sources of labor to mitigate an expected shortfall of migrant workers, Workforce Development Agency director Liu
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22 February 2015, Dhaka Tribune The European Union (EU) will take steps to recruit more skilled manpower from Bangladesh. The assurances came at the meeting between EU Ambassador to Bangladesh Pierre Mayaudon and Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandakar Mosharraf Hossian at Expatriate Welfare Building in Eskaton of Dhaka on Sunday. The EU
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20 February 2015, The Daily Star Thailand may sign a deal with Bangladesh for recruitment of workers for fishing, construction and manufacturing sectors to contribute to the economies of the two countries. “We have highlighted the government to government initiatives for low-cost exploitation-free ethical labour recruitment of our people in Bangkok,” Saida Muna Tasneem, ambassador
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10 February 2015, Dhaka Tribune Saudi Arabia is going to import around 10,000 workers from Bangladesh every month in 10 categories of household jobs, free of cost. The decision came at a meeting between Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and a 19-member delegation led by Saudi Deputy Minister for International Affairs
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6 February 2015, The Daily Star A high-profile Saudi delegation will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday to discuss the recruitment procedure of workers from Bangladesh to the kingdom. “The team will discuss different issues regarding recruitment of manpower from Bangladesh,” Sarwar Alam, counsellor (Labour wing) at Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh, told The Daily Star over
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5 February 2015, News Next International Desk: Bangladesh is ready to send over two million trained workers to Saudi Arabia including 500,000 maids to meet the Kingdom’s labour requirement, reported Arab News. The workforce would include engineers, maids, nurses and drivers, said Consul General Shahidul Karim in comments published on Wednesday. Saudi has already set
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29 January 2015, The Financial Express It is a welcome piece of news that the Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its labour market for local jobseekers after a seven-year ban on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. The country’s overall manpower export started declining significantly when the Saudi authorities brought allegations of anomalies in the recruitment
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21 January 2015, The Daily Star The Saudi Arabian government yesterday decided to sign agreements with labour-exporting countries including Bangladesh for recruiting foreign workers “The draft agreements for the recruitment of workers will be signed between the Ministry of Labour and its counterparts in other countries,” reported Arab News quoting Saudi Culture and Information Minister
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