17 February 2015, New Vision KAMPALA – The Ugandan ministry of gender, labour and social development has released a list (at bottom of page) of only 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda. The companies complied with the requirements of externalization of labour, most of which is to countries in the Middle East, according […]
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14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of
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13 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri bid farewell on Friday to 111 Indonesian workers who will undertake apprenticeships at 45 manufacturing and construction companies in Japan. “The three-year apprenticeship is a program designed to improve Indonesian workers’ competence,” he said when seeing off the workers at the Cevest Labor Training Center
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11 February 2015, PC World Apple has forced its suppliers to end a form of “bonded labor” that saddled assembly line workers with unnecessary hiring fees, and put them in debt to third-party recruiters. The requirement went into effect starting this year, the company said on Wednesday in its latest supplier responsibility report, which examines
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Watch this powerful video from Human Rights Watch, detailing migrants’ rights violations throughout the migration process.
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10 February 2015, City Paper Migrants working legally in the U.S. on temporary visas can end up as virtual slaves. They can’t change jobs, they’re often paid less than minimum wage for 80 or more hours a week, and they can’t usually return to the U.S. to sue their employer in court—there’s no visa program
6 February 2015, Bernama.com It is hoped that the measure taken by the Malaysian and Indonesian governments to use only one channel for the recruitment of domestic maids from the republic will resolve all issues arising in respect to the foreign workers’ welfare in this country. This was stated by Human Resource Deputy Minister Datuk
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31 January 2015, Press Trust of India Police today busted a Gulf country job racket by arresting three persons and seized over 200 passports from them. Based on credible information, the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, (North Zone) nabbed the agents who were cheating the unemployed youth and carrying the business of recruitment for deployment
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23 January 2015, GCR Government pushes Qatar to set a minimum wage for 400,000 migrant workers and cut out private labour agencies The government of Nepal has set out a raft of measures to prevent its citizens from being exploited when they work abroad, with particular emphasis on regulating the conduct of labour agencies that
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30 January 2015, NITI Central India declared “national mourning” on January 24 as a mark of respect for Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz who died on January 23. The national flag was flown at half-mast throughout the country. As the 79-year-old king Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, who is not in good health, nominates the princes and
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