19 January 2015, MyRepública Recruiting firms threaten to stop processing Malaysia-bound workers KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Amid fierce opposition from the manpower recruiting companies, Malaysia- one of the preferred working destinations for Nepali migrant workers – has has brought into effect a bio-metric system for Nepal along with 14 other countries. The bio-metric system is a […]
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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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7 January 2015, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition On 7 January 2015, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition released a position paper in response to the study on forced labour in Malaysia’s electronics industry published by Verité in 2014. This position paper outlines the EICC’s initiatives in combatting forced labour and revisions to its code of conduct to
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7 January 2015, The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 07 /CSRwire/ – The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of leading electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, today announced that it will conduct shadow audits and increase its industry and government engagement in Malaysia to further combat forced labor. The
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6 January 2015, Jakarta Post Opinion Column: Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific On a recent trip to Cambodia I met a group of young people who were eager to pursue a better life by going to work abroad, although they were concerned that many migrant workers faced unfair treatment. I told
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10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian national Lokesh Sapaliga’s horrifying experience in a Sarawak factory is
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6 November 2014, Daily Express KOTA KINABALU: Indonesian workers are still the preferred workforce based on the experience of oil palm industry players in West Malaysia. East Malaysia Planters Association (Empa) Chairman Datuk Othman Walat said however, the association has no objection to any of its members trying out Bangladeshi workers in their plantation. “In
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24 October 2014, Bernama.com.my KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Bangladesh intend to carry out the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia on a government-to-government (G-to-G) arrangement, without the involvement of any third party, agent, outsourcing company or employer. The Human Resources Ministry said this mechanism would minimise the recruitment cost from RM13,000
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