Ashwani Sukthankar, Global Workers Justice Alliance 2012 Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System, presented by Global Workers Justice Alliance. Visas, Inc provides […]
22 June 2014, Times of Malta In April 2014, over five million young people under 25 were unemployed in the EU. The European Commission last week launched the European Hospitality Skills Passport, a tool developed to facilitate contact between jobseekers and employers in the hospitality and tourism sector in Europe. The Skills Passport allows workers
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26, June 2014, Chron One year ago today, the U.S. Senate passed the first major piece of immigration reform legislation since the Reagan administration. That same day, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed a much more focused, but very important measure, called the SKILLS Visa Act, which would provide much-needed updates to our nation’s high-skilled visa system. However, neither
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17 November 2011, Sun Star LOCAL and overseas recruitment industries yesterday expressed support for the immediate ratification of the Internal Labor Organization’s (ILO) convention on decent work for domestic workers or C 189. They added they are “one with the government in pushing efforts to uplift the conditions and ensure decent work for kasambahays or
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15474016.pdf Report by Marco Doudeijns & Jean-Christophe Dumont Brussels January 2003 This document presents the result of studies recently carried out in a range of OECD Member countries on labour shortages and the role that migration can play to alleviate labour shortages. In spite of the methodological problems, that may be involved in assessing labour
