New Age Bangladesh | 8 February 2019 In 2018, about 30,000 female housekeepers were sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without imparting any training at technical training centres. Out of 73,713 female workers sent to the KSA in 2018, according to available data 44,352 were imparted housekeeping training. Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry […]
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South China Morning Post | 15 My 2019 The Labour Department should take more action to tackle domestic helper hiring agencies that provide a poor service to employers, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged. The Consumer Council received around 200 complaints on such agencies each year, chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said on Wednesday, in
The Straits Times | 2 January 2019 A planned scheme to grade maid employment agencies and boost the professionalism of the industry has been delayed for over a year after several issues were raised during consultation sessions. The Trustmark scheme was first announced by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in March 2016 and was meant
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Published by Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) Singapore and Liberty Shared The report examines the issue of forced labour (FL) among Singapore’s migrant domestic worker (MDW) population. Enaged in essential care and household work, live-in domestic workers are recognized as particularly vulnerable to labour and human rights violations. As a community, domestic workers are
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The study aims to examine the extent to which domestic workers, employers, recruitment agencies and civil society that deal with domestic workers benefit from Law No. 68 on domestic workers, year 2015. The study also looks at the effectiveness of the implementation of the law three years after it was adopted. Migrant domestic workers account
Channel News Asia | 21 October 2018 SINGAPORE: In early October this year, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a local employment agency, with “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDW). The agency was found to have placed advertisements on the online marketplace Carousell which is typically used to buy and sell new and second-hand
GDN Online | 9 November 2018 THOUSANDS of runaway domestic workers in Bahrain are being given the opportunity to regularise their status under a new initiative. This is the first time domestic workers are being included in the flexible work permit scheme that was launched in July last year. However, only those who have been
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Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Thursday (Oct 4) prosecuted SRC Recruitment and one of its Employment Agency (EA) employees, Erleena Mohd Ali, for “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDWs). SRC and Mdm Erleena face a combined 243 charges for an array of wrongdoing, which includes
The Independent | 17 September 2018 Carousell, a Singapore-owned online marketplace, features buying and selling of various items. Clothes, shoes, and electronic devices are the goods typically being auctioned off on Carousell, but unusual and humorous things pop up from time to time. There was nothing humorous about what Netizen Michael S. discovered on Carousell.
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New Age Bangladesh | 2 September 2018 Tightening of selection process has reduced migration of housemaids by nearly 50 per cent since June, according to the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training. Officials told New Age the government tightened the selection process after many housemaids came back from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries as
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