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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12 February 2016, Videonews Cambodian Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng has met with his Saudi counterpart in Riyadh, where the two inked a memorandum of understanding — the first in a series of steps to send Cambodians to work in the Gulf country. However, the announcement Friday of Thursday’s meeting was met with concern from
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19 January 2016, Arab News The Ministry of Labor granted 48 new licenses to recruitment offices of household workers located in various areas of the Kingdom, as well as preliminary approvals to 149 others. This comes as part of the ministry’s recent efforts to develop the recruitment market and meet the increasing demand of citizens
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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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29 November 2015, Kathmandu Post Nov 29, 2015- The number of Nepali migrants going to Malaysia has fallen drastically after the government made it mandatory for overseas employers to provide free tickets and visa to workers. Malaysia, the largest destination for Nepali workers, hired only 25,635 Nepali workers in the last three months, nearly 68
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15 September 2015, Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — An Ethiopian diplomat has refuted claims that domestic labor recruitment from his country would recommence, saying that salaries would have to increase before any recruitment deal could be made. Liaison Officer at the Ethiopian Embassy, Temsegen Omar, confirmed that his country has rejected calls for a return of
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2 September 2015, The Daily Star Recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have decided to stop hiring Bangladeshi domestic workers, claiming that a supply crunch has raised costs, says Arab News. According to a report the local English daily ran yesterday, Ibrahim Al-Megheimish, a recruitment expert, said there were too few Bangladeshi workers seeking employment, which
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28 August 2015, The Ethiopia Herald EDITORIAL Labour migration, which has been mounting nowadays, is being favored by young Ethiopians from rural Ethiopia as a strategy for moving out of poverty. Generally, the immediate cause for migration is search for employment and a better life, which is not far from the truth, but only partially.
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