New Age Bangladesh | 13 August 2018 At least 270 Bangladeshi workers, who paid over Malaysian Ringgit 1.8 million to an agent for securing valid working permits as part of the Immigration Department’s rehiring programme, have claimed that they were duped. One of the victims, Imran Haq Uzzal, has said that he and some of […]
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By Teh Athira Yusof, Aliza Shah Straits Times | 29 July 2018 ENFORCEMENT agencies that vowed to rid the country of all illegal immigrants must recognise the actual number out there to address this problem once and for all, said those in direct contact with labour-intensive economic sectors. The number, they said, was far more
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Today Online |23 July, 2018 KUALA LUMPUR – Rubber trees untapped, oil palm fruits left to rot and silent construction sites. These are the early consequences of the new Malaysian government’s aggressive crackdown on undocumented migrant workers that have left businesses reeling. The crackdown on illegal foreign workers is one of the few policies from
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By Nurul Azwa Aris Free Malaysia Today | 8 June 2018 PETALING JAYA: The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) said today there is need for a comprehensive policy on foreign workers based on the country’s economic ambitions. FMM vice-president Nathan Suppiah also said foreign worker management must come under the human resources ministry and not
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By Austin Grabish CBC News| 9 Oct 2017 A Manitoba pork processing plant is suing a Toronto recruiter and former staffer for allegedly misleading foreign workers and persuading them to quit their jobs at the plant to work with companies from which the recruiter allegedly benefited financially. The lawsuit — filed on Sept. 19 by
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By: Jim Rankin The Star Canada | 8 October 2017 Convinced by friends that Canada’s low-wage temporary foreign worker program would provide a better life for her family, Gina Bahiwal borrowed $6,000 to pay a recruiter in the Philippines to take care of paperwork and get her a job. Within nine months she was in
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The Outlook India |26 September 2017 Hyderabad, Sep 26 Two men were today arrested from Ameerpet in the city by Cyberabad police for allegedly cheating 241 persons to the tune of Rs 2.50 crore on the false promise of providing jobs to them abroad, police said. The accused were identified as N Shasidhar Reddy and
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Jakarta Post The Sekupang Police in Batam, Riau Islands have detained two suspects, identified as C and H, for allegedly running an illegal migrant worker agency. The two suspects had allegedly used a fictitious migrant worker placement company (PJTKI) to attract and deceive residents eager to work overseas. Some 140 people claiming to be its
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Anjana Sankar | July 2, 2017 Khaleej Times Of 792 inquiries received by the embassy, only 66 turned out to be genuine. The Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi has thwarted more than 700 fake job offers made to its citizens in the last six months, the Indian ambassador said. “Between January and June 2017 alone,
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by: Perfecto Raymundo- Philippine News Agency | 13/04/2017 MANILA — The Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) has arrested four suspects for large-scale illegal recruitment purportedly for non-existent jobs in Malaysia, New Zealand and Paris, France. In a press conference in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Holy Wednesday, PNP-CIDG chief Director Roel
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