24 November 2014, BBC.com Labour has said it would introduce a system of licensing to clamp down on “rogue” recruitment agencies. In a speech in London, Ed Miliband said some agencies break minimum wage laws and exploit workers by undercutting wages of permanent staff. […] ‘Cowboy agencies’ He announced regulatory measures for such agencies if […]
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10 November 2014, República KATHMANDU, Nov 10: The International Relations and Labor Committee of the legislature-parliament has directed the government to ensure that transactions between manpower companies and aspirant workers are made through banking system. Concluding that the fees paid by aspirant workers to manpower agencies in cash is fueling malpractices, the committee meeting held
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13 October 2014 From Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (Canada) on the reintroduction of legislation to guard against migrant labour recruitment abuses in the province of Ontario, Canada: Thanks to pressure from workers and the public, the Ontario government has re-introduced legislation that will make some improvements to the working conditions of workers including migrant
7 October 2014, Manila Standard The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) suspended a recruitment agency for charging placement fees higher than what was allowed by government regulations. POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac ordered the grounding of Lexus Inc. which has deployed 20 Filipino factory workers in Taiwan. The workers filed separate complaints of against the
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29 September 2014, Saudi Gazette via Yahoo News The head of the national committee for recruitment said relying on Indonesians is not enough to meet the huge demand for domestic workers in the Kingdom. “Indonesian authorities are insisting on high salaries for domestic workers in addition to personal information of their would-be sponsors, and we
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28 September 2014, BeaumontEnterprise.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law seven new bills intended to thwart human trafficking. The bills were mostly uncontroversial and had bipartisan support; they primarily involved enhancements and upgrades to existing laws on human trafficking and youth prostitution. They included AB1585, by Assemblyman Luis Alejo,
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19 September 2014, FarmingShow.com (New Zealand) Filipino migrant workers are bearing the brunt of hefty recruitment costs, taking the weight off Canterbury employers to pay their fair share. Newstalk ZB understands some workers from the Philippines are being charged upwards of $10,000 by recruitment agencies to come to New Zealand. Meanwhile, employers are being charged
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Verité, September 2014 New Research from Verité exposes forced labour in the Malaysian electronics industry, citing the global labour recruitment regime as a major causes of abuses. From the Vérite media release: Groundbreaking Research Offers Concrete Evidence of Widespread Forced Labor Among Foreign Migrant Workers in Malaysian Electronics You might think about debt bondage in relation
13 September, The Guardian The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on the United Nations to investigate evidence that thousands of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, including those building a new Louvre museum and the world’s largest Guggenheim, are treated as slave labour. The confederation has called on the UN’s International Labour
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Millions of workers become slaves through the actions of unscrupulous labor brokers who charge exorbitant recruitment fees, either do not provide contracts or change contract terms, impose unreasonable deductions from promised wages and leave workers vulnerable to exploitation. For this reason, and with the support of a grant from Humanity United, ICCR has launched the
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