17 February 2016, CitizenTV The government has embarked on a program that will vet all recruitment agencies in the country involved in labor exportation to foreign nations. Labour Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie said that the move encompassed systematic measures set by the government to ensure that challenges faced by Kenyans working in foreign nations are […]
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13 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri bid farewell on Friday to 111 Indonesian workers who will undertake apprenticeships at 45 manufacturing and construction companies in Japan. “The three-year apprenticeship is a program designed to improve Indonesian workers’ competence,” he said when seeing off the workers at the Cevest Labor Training Center
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10 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri, who accompanied President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s on his recent state visit to Malaysia, has announced that Malaysian employers will no longer be allowed to recruit Indonesian workers directly. “All recruitment of Indonesian workers for employment in Malaysia must be conducted by authorized labor-supplying companies in
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7 February 2015, Gulf Times The Philippine government has received a positive response from Qatar’s Ministry of Labour to further enhance the protection of overseas Filipino workers’ welfare in the country, a senior official of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has said. POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac told reporters that they proposed to have an agreement
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21 July 2014, Business Standard The age of Indian domestic workers looking for employment in Saudi Arabia has been set between 25 and 50 years under a new employment agreement finalised by the two countries, media reported. “Our agreement with India sets the age of the domestic workers coming to the Kingdom (Saudi Arabia) at
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