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Isolation from technology and social networks hikes risk of labor trafficking

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26 February 2015, USC News  Migrant workers isolated from technology and social networks are more vulnerable to human trafficking, forced labor and exploitation, according to a new report released today by the Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “Technology and Labor Trafficking in a Network […]

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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs

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25 February 2015 Tech Investor News,  The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-European data scientists, senior developers, cyber security specialists and product managers. The MAC is an independent body

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Federal jury in SPLC case awards $14 million to Indian guest workers victimized in labor trafficking scheme by Signal International and its agents

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18 February 2015, Southern Poverty Law Center A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who

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Minister sees off workers departing for Japan

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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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Likely Qatar Deportation of Striking Workers Raises Concerns

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28 November 2014, The World Post Qatar is signaling rejection of demands by human rights and trade union activists to grant trade union and collective bargaining rights to its majority migrant worker population with the detention and likely deportation of more than 100 predominantly South Asian laborers, who went on strike to protest low pay

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‘Slave Labour’ in Malaysia: Time to rethink migrant labour management

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10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian national Lokesh Sapaliga’s horrifying experience in a Sarawak factory is

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