By Migrantwatch.org Over a year has passed since Kuwait’s parliament approved a law on the recruitment and employment of domestic workers. The new law was widely celebrated by state officials and international organizations for its “slow progress” in protecting workers’ rights and enhancing a “good image of Kuwait.” However, Kuwaiti officials appear satisfied merely by […]
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7 March 2016, Gulf Digital News Expatriate workers made up 83 per cent of the workforce in Kuwait by the end of 2015, to top 2.138 million. Foreigners working as maidservants and other domestic helpers represented more than the quarter of the expatriate communities in the country, standing at 26.4%. A report surveying the labour
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20 March 2015, Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The India government has issued an order yesterday banning overseas recruitment of nurses by private agencies stating that only an authorized government agency can conduct nursing recruitments. The order becomes effective from April 30, 2015. According to the government order, nursing recruitments to a foreign country from India can
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29 January 2015, The Financial Express It is a welcome piece of news that the Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its labour market for local jobseekers after a seven-year ban on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. The country’s overall manpower export started declining significantly when the Saudi authorities brought allegations of anomalies in the recruitment
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15 January 2015, my República KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The government is preparing to lower the ceiling for fees that aspirant overseas workers pay to recruitment firms. The Ministry of Labor and Employment is mulling over lowering the ceiling realizing that many manpower firms were overcharging youth heading to different overseas destinations. Minister of State for
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16 October 2014, Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines — For misrepresentation and engaging in human trafficking activities, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has cancelled the license of Non-Stop Employment Corp., a recruitment agency based in Ermita, Manila. POEA head Hans Leo Cacdac said on Wednesday it was the firm’s “third offense that warrants the penalty of
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18 August 2014, República KATHMANDU, August 18: The government has said that it has been negotiating with major source countries to make the recruitment process free of cost for Nepalis migrant workers. “We have been advocating for zero recruitment cost for Nepali migrant workers. To materialize this idea, the role of countries seeking migrant workers
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Maysa Zahra, Migration Policy Centre & Gulf Research Centre / Gulf Labour Markets & Migration, July 2014 ABSTRACT The sponsorship system of the Arab Gulf countries comprises rules and regulations that tie the residence of a migrant worker to his/her sponsor in the country. This paper offers an in-depth ex- amination of the legal framework
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