Bernama | 11 August 2016 IPOH: The government will announce the new policy on recruitment of foreign workers on Tuesday, Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said. He said the policy, which will be more systematic, was formulated to ensure that the recruitment of foreign workers would be done in line with market demands. “The new […]
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By: Robin Agustin Free Malaysia Today | 6 August 2018 PETALING JAYA: The country’s largest employer and labour groups have urged the government to stop the outsourcing of foreign worker recruitment processes, which they say have pushed up costs and resulted in abuses. Speaking to FMT, Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan and Malaysian
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Kota Kinabalu: Employers and migrant workers backed the call by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh for the Government to abolish all agents dealing with foreign workers. They said it is logical to allow employers and foreign workers to deal direct with the Immigration Department when applying for the necessary sponsorships like work permits
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The Star Online | 23 June 2018 SEPANG: Bangladeshi workers who arrived here recently said their families made great sacrifices to raise the RM20,000 each to find jobs in Malaysia. The workers told The Star that their families sold cattle and farmland, and even borrowed money at high interest rates to secure employment here. Even
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By: Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan New Age Bangladesh | 3 August 2018 A Bangladeshi housekeeper is required to pay $1,800 equivalent to Tk 1. 51 lakh as the cost of migration to Hong Kong, though employers bear the cost of migration. Recruiting agencies in Bangladesh illegally realize the migration costs for ‘our housemaids’ migrant right
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In a major policy shift, the new Malaysian government wants to reintroduce G2G, a state-level labour recruitment system, to eliminate middlemen in the recruitment that has always been marred by corruption and exploitation. “We don’t want G2G Plus. Any arrangement should be government-to-government [G2G],” Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said on Sunday, reports Malaysian
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PETALING JAYA: Only RM9,000 from about RM20,000 paid by Bangladeshi workers went to 10 authorised recruitment agents operated by a syndicate. A Bangladeshi businessman who claimed that he was the spokesman for the 10 companies based in Dhaka said the rest of the money was distributed to middlemen, including those in villages. He told The
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Ramu Sapkota in Kathmandu with Alyaa Alhadjri in Kuala Lumpur Nepali Times | 20 July 2018 A deeply-rooted nexus of politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats in Nepal and Malaysia have looted more than Rs5 billion over the past five years from vulnerable Nepali migrant workers desperate to seek work in Malaysia. Nepal’s Labour Minister Gokarna Bista