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Global database: Definition of fees and related costs in national laws and policies

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This map displays a global database of national laws, policies and regulations (policies) that have defined recruitment fees and related costs. The data collection was undertaken in 2018 in preparation for a global study to support the Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Define Recruitment Fees and Costs. This meeting led to the adoption of the […]

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS BEWARE! New Definition of “Recruitment Fees” Clarifies What Constitutes Human Trafficking-Related Activities – And It May Not Be What You Think

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JD Supra | 8 February 2019 Can requiring that a job applicant obtain and pay for a passport photo make a U.S. government contractor run afoul of human trafficking rules? Potentially “yes” under a new final rule clarifying what constitutes human trafficking under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”). Since 2015, the U.S. government has prohibited

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Amendment to the FAR Rule on Human Trafficking Defines “Recruitment Fees”

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The National Law Review | 14 January 2019 On December 20, 2018, the FAR Council published a final rule amending the FAR rule on human trafficking to provide a definition of “recruitment fees.” Federal Acquisition Regulation: Combating Trafficking in Persons—Definition of “Recruitment Fees,” 83 Fed. Reg. 65466. The final rule identifies the types of charges

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Migrants claim recruiters lured them into forced labour at top Qatar hotel

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The Guardian | 29 October 2018 The Guardian has found evidence that hotel staff in the world’s richest country are paid below the minimum wage for enduring long shifts in intense heat The Marsa Malaz Kempinski hotel rises like a fairytale palace from a manmade island on an exclusive stretch of Qatar’s coastline. Even by

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The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor-visa programs, which in theory at least offer a legal pathway to

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Foreign Caregivers Fill the Gap

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Taiwan Business Topics 18 October 2018 Filling the gap are foreign caregivers – Taiwan’s angels of mercy that work for far below the minimum wage, often isolated from the public in tedious and occasionally hostile living environments. According to the National Immigration Agency, Taiwan had 253,679 foreign caregivers as of August this year, mostly from

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

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Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 YANGON, Myanmar: 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. Migrant labour – much of it from Myanmar – has propped up Thailand’s

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