By Angel Tesorero | July 1, 2017 Khaleejtimes Some agencies recruit them from home countries and bring them to the UAE on three-month tourist visa, on the promise of getting employed, which is an illegal practice Most distressed maids are quite new to Dubai. They came here on a visit visa with the objective of […]
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Gulf News | Staff Report 17 December 2016 Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation to handle all recruitment and employment applications for domestic workers Abu Dhabi: Starting from the first quarter of 2017, recruitment and employment applications for domestic workers in the UAE will be handled by the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, with
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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
1 March 2016, Gulf news Governments of two major Indian states have moved to protect blue collar workers from exploitation by recruitment agents, officials said. Two delegations led by ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Telangana states are here for employers and UAE officials to ascertain ways of creating a safe migration system. Around 60,000 Indians
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14 February 2016, MENA Financial Network A clash between minimum wages stipulated by the Indian government and those prevailing in the UAE labour market is resulting in rejection of applications by some UAE employers trying to recruit Indian workers Khaleej Times has learnt.As per the new UAE labour law it is mandatory for employers to
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31 December 2015, The National The latest labour recruitment rules come into force from Friday, designed to provide greater protection for those entering the UAE to work. The Ministry of Labour will not issue new work permits to overseas workers or renew current residents’ permits if their employer fails to provide a new unified contract.
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28 December 2015, The Times of India Official recruitment agencies in Kerala have expressed ignorance about the changes in UAE’s work permit rules that come into force from January next year. Quoting extensively from a report that appeared in an Arabic daily ‘Al Bayan’, some English news websites had reported that the country’s labour department
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21 December 2015, Prothom Alo Bangladesh will have to wait more to send ‘regular workers’ to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the labour recruiting companies of that country are still working on ‘redesigning’ their recruitment process. Both the countries are, however, hopeful of export of ‘large scale’ Bangladeshi workers, including more skilled manpower, to
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16 April 2015, GhanaWeb Statistics from the National Labour Department (NLD) indicate that 96 out the 200 licensed private employment agencies (PEA) in the country were in good standing at the end of the first quarter of this year. Fourteen of the licensed agencies are into foreign recruitment and the remainder of 186 are all
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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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