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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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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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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The Edge Weekly | 6 September 2018 It is an open secret that the foreign worker recruitment process is complex. Its complexity has eluded researchers trying to pin down the exact amount of money that is involved in the entire process. “The recruitment chain is long and complex, deliberately so, because the longer and more
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New Age Bangladesh | 7 September The Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training officials on Thursday stressed the need to bring middlemen and brokers involved with the process of recruitment of workers for overseas jobs under the legal framework. Speaking at a ‘Coordination Meeting between BMET and the WARBE Development Foundation at BMET’s conference room
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The Daily Star | 31 August 2018 The much talked about 10 recruiting agents, accused of monopoly in labour recruitment in Malaysia, said they had no control over the excessive migration cost. They held a press conference yesterday at The Westin Dhaka amid media reports accusing the agencies of monopoly and charging exorbitant fees from
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New Age Bangladesh | 29 August 2018 Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Nurul Islam on Tuesday said that the government would call for explanations from 10 recruiting agencies on allegation of monopoly and syndication in recruitment of Bangladeshi workers for Malaysia. At a press conference at Probashi Kalyan Bhaban, he said that the government
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The Star Online | 28 August 2018 Like employers, Bangladeshi workers too have much to gain from this move. The workers and their families have been paying up to RM20,000 to work in Malaysia. These high fees were a result of sub-agents, who recruited the workers, having to pay one of the 10 authorised companies
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