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OWWA: Recruitment agencies need to step up game to protect OFWs

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By: Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News | 7 October 2017 MANILA – Recruitment agencies must do their share in ensuring the welfare and protection of Filipino workers they deploy abroad given their steadily increasing numbers. Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) underscored the need for due diligence on the part […]

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Ban on hiring inexperienced expat engineers from Jan. 1

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Saudi Gazette report | 3 October 2017 RIYADH — Starting Jan. 1, foreign engineers with less than five years of experience will no longer be recruited, the Saudi Council of Engineers has confirmed. Engineering companies involved in urgent projects have been given a three-month deadline to terminate the contracts of inexperienced engineers who applied for

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The cost of migration: What low-skilled migrant workers from Pakistan pay to work in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

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This report presents the findings of a survey on migration expenses that Pakistani workers paid to secure jobs in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The focus is on low-skilled migrants, who are the most vulnerable because of their low educational qualifications and limited asset base. The central conclusion is that low-skilled Pakistani migrant

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Lanka, Saudi Arabia ink e-hiring system for migrant workers recruitment

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22 March 2016, Business Standard Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia have inked an agreement to set up an electronic system that would streamline recruitment from the island nation. Saudi Deputy Labor Minister for Customer and Labor Relations Ziad Al-Sayegh has said the agreement was recently signed in Colombo during the bi-annual joint technical committee meeting

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Cambodia sets up over 40 offices for domestic workers’ recruitment

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19 February 2016, Arab News The Cambodian government has set up 42 recruiting offices in the country. The offices will send domestic workers to the Kingdom during the coming months, the Ministry of Labor announced on Thursday. Last week, the Kingdom and Cambodia signed a deal for the recruitment of domestic and general workers. The

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Using social media for selling visas is human trafficking

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13 January 2016, Saudi Gazette The Ministry of Labor has warned against selling visas and transferring sponsorship of expatriates on social media saying the culprit can be charged with human trafficking, Makkah newspaper reported. International Law Professor Abdulsamad Al-Ali said international agreements between countries forbid any form of human trafficking. “Citizens must know that transferring

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