Kathmandu Post | 30 August 2018 Nepal and Malaysia are close to striking a historic pact that is expected to streamline the overall process of hiring Nepali workers as well as ensuring their labour rights. The two governments are currently reviewing the agreement’s draft and incorporating their respective concerns before the document is finalised. The […]
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Migration News Bangladesh | 27 August 2018 Reducing migration costs remain as a big challenge for Bangladesh though the Malaysian government decided to postpone hiring migrant workers from Bangladesh under the government to government plus recruitment system, controlled by a syndicate of 10 recruiting agencies in Bangladesh. Apart from lowering cost of migration, maintaining healthy
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By Md. Saidun Nabi Dhaka Tribune | 29 August 2018 Migration experts and stakeholders have said Bangladesh may temporarily suffer a fall in remittance inflows from Malaysia due to the latter’s decision to stop hiring Bangladeshi workers from September. But an improved policy would likely improve the situation in the long run, they added. They
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Kathmandu Post | 15 August 2018 Aug 15, 2018-Malaysia on Tuesday said government-to-government (G2G) system would bring migrant workers from Nepal. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the government would soon sign the MoU with Nepal to resolve foreign workers’ issue. CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE
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By Sharif Khiam and Ali Nufael Benar News | 16 August 2018 Bangladesh has welcomed Malaysia’s decision to end a monopoly on recruitment of workers from the South Asian nation, saying the new measure would cut costs and allow fair competition. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been reviewing policies of the previous government since taking
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By Rahimi Yunus The Malaysian Reserve | 8 August 2018 The government, following the dispute between Nepali workers and Bestinet Sdn Bhd, is formulating a government-to-government (G2G) approach, which includes axing middlemen involvement in the hiring process of foreign workers. Human Resources (HR) Deputy Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar (picture) said the government has initiated the
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In a major policy shift, the new Malaysian government wants to reintroduce G2G, a state-level labour recruitment system, to eliminate middlemen in the recruitment that has always been marred by corruption and exploitation. “We don’t want G2G Plus. Any arrangement should be government-to-government [G2G],” Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said on Sunday, reports Malaysian
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15 February 2016, Dhaka Tribune Malaysia has begun to register undocumented labourers today, including those from Bangladesh, with less than a week to go before Bangladesh and Malaysia finalise a new labour deal. The issue of importing Bangladeshi workers has been a contentious one in Malaysia, where the government and local trades bodies have been
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14 February 2016, Dhaka Tribune The land of promise for tens of thousands of Bangladeshi labourers, Malaysia is fast becoming a place of bondage for them. A loss of registration status has left between 800,000 and 948,000 Bangladeshi nationals, according to data from Malaysian rights organisation Tenaganita, vulnerable to low-wage exploitation or police raids and
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17 September 2015, Scoop Independent News Workplace Relations and Safety and Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse and the Philippines Secretary of Labour and Employment Ms Rosalinda Baldoz have today signed a bilateral Arrangement on the recruitment and treatment of Filipino migrant workers. “New Zealand greatly values the contribution Filipino workers make to New Zealand’s labour force
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