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Labor Ministry warns against unlicensed recruitment offices

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3 August 2015, Saudi Gazette in Yahoo News The Ministry of Labor has warned citizens and other clients against dealing with unlicensed recruitment offices and said they should approach offices registered with the ministry’s Musanid website for recruitment of domestic workers, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Abdullah Al-Olayyan, director general of the ministry’s branch in […]

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Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico

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Jennifer Gordon, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY “I contend that a key goal of efforts to regulate recruitment should be to reshape the incentives of the entities at the top of the product or service supply chain, so that in turn they become the forces driving compliance by the recruiters below. Likewise, recruiters at the top

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Nepal: Recruitment firms picket against changes to overseas recruitment

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29 June 2015, Daily News Overseas recruitment firms in Nepal picketed the country’s Department of Foreign Employment (DOFE) last week. Demanding that the new mandate that foreign employers pay visa and travel fees for Nepalese migrant workers be revoked, reports ekantipur.com. Around 300 protesters chanted slogans and waved placards demanding the resignation of the State

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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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South Korea to Double Cambodian Migrant Worker Permits

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17 February 2015, The Cambodia Daily The South Korean government will double the number of Cambodian migrant workers who are granted permits to take up employment in the country’s manufacturing, construction and agriculture sectors each year, officials said on Monday. There are currently more than 35,000 Cambodians working in South Korea who send home remittances

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Going to debt mountain

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14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of

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