Porimol Palma 12:00 AM, December 11, 2016 / Daily Star A nexus between the employers of migrant workers overseas and illegal manpower brokers there is jacking up the migration cost of Bangladeshi workers. Recruiting agents and illegal brokers in the Gulf and Southeast Asian regions “buy” work visas from overseas employers and then “sell” those […]
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October 31, 2016 / The News Pakistan ILO recommends Pakistani government to better regulate migration process for overseas employment to control costs ABU DHABI: Pakistani workers are paying about 13 times the official costs to work in the UAE or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), a survey has found, reported The National. Labourers each paid
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6 May 2015, The Jordan Times AMMAN — The Indonesian government’s recent decision to ban its citizens from working in several Middle Eastern countries, including Jordan, will have a negative impact on the sector, an insider said Wednesday. Khaled Hseinat, president of the Domestic Helpers Recruitment Agencies Association (DHRAA), said a delegation from Jordan visited
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23 February 2015, Gulf News Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Labour Ministry has, in an unprecedented decision, approved South American country Chile as a new source for domestic workers in the kingdom. Chile joins 14 countries on the list that includes seven countries from Africa (Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, Tanzania, Tunisia, Egypt and Mauritania) and seven from Asia
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22 February 2015, Middle East Business Intelligence Speak to any employer operating within the GCC’s construction sector and they will have a story about the various challenges their business has faced trying to recruit and manage a project’s workforce. It is commonplace to hear employers complain about facing higher recruitment fees, rising payroll commitments, irregularities
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22 February 2015, Times of Oman Muscat: As governments commit to new labour contracts designed to safeguard their citizens overseas, the debate over fair pay and conditions for expatriate maids in Oman has reopened. Some employers in Sultanate have expressed “disappointment” over increasing procedural difficulties when trying to hire domestic staff, while champions of migrant
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17 February 2015, New Vision KAMPALA – The Ugandan ministry of gender, labour and social development has released a list (at bottom of page) of only 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda. The companies complied with the requirements of externalization of labour, most of which is to countries in the Middle East, according
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23 January 2015, GCR Government pushes Qatar to set a minimum wage for 400,000 migrant workers and cut out private labour agencies The government of Nepal has set out a raft of measures to prevent its citizens from being exploited when they work abroad, with particular emphasis on regulating the conduct of labour agencies that
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20 October 2014, The Sunday Leader General Secretary of Ravana Balaya, Ven. Saddhatissa Thera accused the management of Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) of failing to ensure the safety of migrant workers in Middle East countries. Following last Thursday’s incident at the SLBFE where the Buddhist monks led by Saddhatissa Thera had a
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1 October 2014, The Nation & Foreign Policy in Focus Excerpt: In Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, more than 157 million people live on about 57,000 square miles of land. That’s a population greater than Russia’s living in a country smaller than the state of Illinois. We heard over
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