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Malaysia targets middlemen to end debt bondage of migrant workers

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Reuters | 19 December 2019 KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Under pressure to crack down on labor abuses, Malaysia is moving to eliminate middlemen who charge millions of foreign workers exorbitant recruitment fees, leaving them saddled with debt and vulnerable to exploitation. In a bid to address this, recently Malaysia struck a deal with […]

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Samsung should try imagining a world where big firms respect workers

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The Guardian | 8 November 2018 Two years after migrants working for global electronics firms in Malaysia complained of labour abuses, change seems slow. Every day, the men who live here work on factory lines making components used by Samsung Electronics, one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. Last year, Samsung made a

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Travel embargo spikes Nepalis’ plans to start new job in Malaysia http://bit.ly/2F5WZMg

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Kathmandu Post 7 November 2018 “When I was in University of Auckland for research I met a person there who had previously worked in the company. He told me to apply for a job. I did. After going through the rigorous selection process, I was selected,” Adhikari told the Post. While Adhikari looked forward to

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‘No fresh chance’

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The Daily Star Bangladesh 2 November 2018 Kuala Lumpur has opposed Dhaka’s proposal for giving the undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia a fresh chance to legalise themselves, say officials at the expatriates’ welfare ministry. The undocumented Bangladeshis will have to return home, a Malaysian delegation told a Bangladesh team at a meeting at the expatriates’

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Recruitment in Malaysia: ‘Monopoly’ was mostly KL’s doing

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The Daily Star | 1 November 2018 The previous Najib Razak-led Malaysian government had created the manpower syndicate which “monopolised” the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian country, according to officials and documents obtained by The Daily Star. Following the Andaman boat crisis in 2015, Malaysia’s then home minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said

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Nepal and Malaysia sign labour pact

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Kathmandu Post | 29 October 2018 Nepal on Monday signed a labour agreement with Malaysia, the most preferred job destination for Nepali migrant workers, in Kathmandu. Nepali Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista and Malaysian Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Recruitment, Employment, and Repatriation

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