HRD Asia | 28 August 2018 Two directors of recruiting firms in Singapore are on trial for allegedly cheating hundreds of foreign jobseekers into paying large sums of money to secure non-existing roles. Clarence Lim and Terry Tan-Soo face a total of 315 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act. The exact number of […]
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Indian national Mohammad Sultan Abu Bakar Kadir was extradited from Singapore and sent back home to Mumbai on Sunday, to be prosecuted by Indian law enforcement authorities for allegedly running a job scam racket and cheating thousands of dollars from over 30 Indian workers with promises of jobs in Singapore. Also known as “Captain Kadir,”
By: Arafat Ara The Financial Express | 3 March 2017 The Bangladesh government has moved to fix a maximum ceiling of migration cost for Singapore-bound workers in a bid to check arbitrary charges by manpower recruiters, sources said. The expatriate welfare ministry is working to fix the cost based on a proposal made by the
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31st January 2017 By Jolovan Wham Last month, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower announced that Cambodia will be a source country for domestic workers from 2017. According to media reports, between 1000 to 1200 domestic workers will be recruited by employment agencies here. This is three times the number now in Singapore. While we welcome
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1 June 2016, Transient Workers Count too The great majority of transnational migrant workers pay money in order to obtain jobs in other countries. The charges are often exorbitant. Most of the money goes to middlemen: agents in their own country or in destination countries, local recruiters and training centres (which often function as middlemen
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17 April 2015, The Straits Times Opinion Piece by Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, President, Transient Worker Count Too (TWC2), Singapore I WELCOME the perceptive and forceful comments made by manpower correspondent Toh Yong Chuan on the subject of migrant workers being crammed into premises where their lives are at risk should a fire break out (“Take action
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13 April 2015, The Straights Times/Singapore THE practice has been outlawed and many have been caught, but some employers here are still collecting kickbacks from foreign workers, said migrant worker groups, employment agencies and workers. These extortions can range from a few hundred dollars to thousands, with some employers demanding upfront cash payments from workers
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7 April 2015, Myanmar Times After a Russian trawler crewed in part by 42 Myanmar fishermen sank in a tragic disaster last week, the veil was lifted on a duplicitous recruitment scheme that has for years profited by illegally tricking labourers onto fishing boats, The Myanmar Times has learned. Two of the five Myanmar recruitment agencies responsible
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