25 June 2014, GMA News A recruitment agency suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration got into deeper trouble after its president admitted his company had an unlicensed firm doing actual recruitment.POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac on Tuesday said he ordered a second case lodged against Memere International Recruitment Company Inc., after its president paid […]
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25 June 2014, Arab News The Labor Ministry will approach the Foreign Affairs Ministry to sort out obstacles in recruiting Filipino domestic workers including contractual difficulties faced by Saudi recruiters in the Philippines. Labor Ministries of the two countries had signed an agreement earlier this year to resume recruitment of the Filipino domestic workers. Mufrej
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October 2008 Volume 15 Number 4 Labor migration from South Asia mostly involves: (1) workers going to work with two- or three-year contracts to the Gulf oil exporters; (2) a high share of women leaving to be domestic helpers from countries such as Sri Lanka (and few women from Bangladesh and Pakistan); and, (3) heavy
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ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, October 2013 Authors: Max Tunon & Khleang Rim ABSTRACT It is projected that Cambodia’s labour force will grow by 22 per cent between 2007 and 2015. An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 new young workers are entering the labour force each year, for whom decent employment opportunities need to be found.
