By Ellie Ng | Hong Kong Free Press 19 January 2017 The Hong Kong government has made plans to strengthen the regulatory regime for employment agencies, which may better protect the labour rights of the city’s migrant domestic workers. In his final Policy Address, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said Wednesday that the Labour Department plans […]
By Migrantwatch.org Over a year has passed since Kuwait’s parliament approved a law on the recruitment and employment of domestic workers. The new law was widely celebrated by state officials and international organizations for its “slow progress” in protecting workers’ rights and enhancing a “good image of Kuwait.” However, Kuwaiti officials appear satisfied merely by
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15 March 2016, The Wall Street Journal The plight of domestic workers in Hong Kong has made headlines in recent years after several high-profile cases in which employers had beat and tortured their helpers. A new study shows that, far from being isolated cases, instances of abuse are more routine and widespread than previously suspected.
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7 March 2016, Gulf Digital News Expatriate workers made up 83 per cent of the workforce in Kuwait by the end of 2015, to top 2.138 million. Foreigners working as maidservants and other domestic helpers represented more than the quarter of the expatriate communities in the country, standing at 26.4%. A report surveying the labour
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7 March 2016, Migrant Rights Social media platforms, especially Facebook pages and groups, have now become marketplaces to subvert the role of recruitment agencies for hiring a domestic worker. These groups are country specific, but also provide cross-border recruitment, bypassing certain moratoriums in place throughout the GCC. These groups and pages demonstrate that bans do little
3 March 2016, Thompson Reuters The Ministry of Labor has emphasized that it is implementing regulations against illegal brokers and middlemen in the recruitment of domestic workers. The ministry said it was keeping a watch on recruitment agents in countries with which the ministry had signed agreements for sending domestic workers to the Kingdom. The
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17 February 2016, CitizenTV The government has embarked on a program that will vet all recruitment agencies in the country involved in labor exportation to foreign nations. Labour Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie said that the move encompassed systematic measures set by the government to ensure that challenges faced by Kenyans working in foreign nations are
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20 December 2015, Arab News JEDDAH: Work on the electronic system for recruiting domestic workers in Uganda has been completed and the recruitment process will start in the next few days, Rashid bin Yahya Symodo, the country’s ambassador has said. “The agreement between the two countries stipulates that the recruiting process should maintain the rights
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