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Al-Rajhi stresses need for effective partnership with recruitment sector

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Saudi Gazette | 10 October 2018 RIYADH — Minister of Labor and Social Development Ahmed Bin Suleiman Al-Rajhi has emphasized the importance of true and effective partnership with the foreign recruitment sector to overcome challenges, reach a clear vision that serves stakeholders and to facilitate Saudi recruitment procedures. At the workshop on “Challenges and Issues […]

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Employment agency and employee face 243 charges for advertising maids on Carousell

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The Straits Timnes | 4 October 2018 SINGAPORE – Employment agency SRC Recruitment and one of its staff were on Thursday (Oct 4) slapped with 243 charges for “selling” maids on online marketplace Carousell. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a statement that the advertisements were placed between Sept 1 and 17, and had

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Workers complain about local agencies overcharging fees

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Asia Times 5 October 2018 Three Filipino domestic workers have filed complaints at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office against two Hong Kong employment agencies for alleged overcharging fees. The two unnamed agencies were the Hong Kong counterparts of the Manila-based Spear International Manpower, sunwebhk.com reported, citing Esther C Bangcawayan, an officer with the Mission for

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Recruiting agencies give government 60-day window to roll back decision

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Kathmandu Post 2 October 2018 Recruiting agencies have launched a protest against the government’s latest measures to manage the foreign employment sector. The Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA), the umbrella organisation of manpower companies, has threatened to shut down all their services if the government does not roll back its decisions. Accusing the

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Extortion and abuse: Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand

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France 24 | 4 October 2018 A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. The Myanmar brokers — or their sub-agents — scour rural villages for workers and transfer all

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Labour Hiring in Malaysia: All licensed agencies can now operate

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The Daily Star | 25 September 2018 Bangladesh and Malaysia yesterday decided to allow all licensed recruiting agencies of Bangladesh to send workers to the Southeast Asian country, following allegations of a syndicate of 10 agents monopolising labour recruitment since early 2017. The decision came in a meeting between Bangladesh Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Nurul Islam

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Group to demonstrate today over ban on recruitment to Gulf States

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Ghana Web | 18 September 2018 The Coalition of Licensed Labour Migration Agencies, returnee migrants, laid off workers and some unemployed youth groups will this morning [Tuesday] embark on a demonstration to register their displeasure at government’s continuous ban on labour migration to the Gulf States. The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Ignatius Baffour

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