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8 February 2015, The National Private recruitment agencies are urged to renew their expired licences or risk administrative fines starting on March 5, the Ministry of Labour warned. The Cabinet has decided to reduce the amount of the fine for non-renewal of licenses from Dh10,000 to Dh1,000 for mediation offices and Dh2,000 for temporary employment
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29 January 2015, The Financial Express It is a welcome piece of news that the Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its labour market for local jobseekers after a seven-year ban on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. The country’s overall manpower export started declining significantly when the Saudi authorities brought allegations of anomalies in the recruitment
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15 January 2015, my República KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The government is preparing to lower the ceiling for fees that aspirant overseas workers pay to recruitment firms. The Ministry of Labor and Employment is mulling over lowering the ceiling realizing that many manpower firms were overcharging youth heading to different overseas destinations. Minister of State for
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9 January 2015, The Gulf Today DUBAI: More Filipinos have been projected to be in the service industry of the UAE specifically in Dubai and the Northern Emirates in the next five years leading to the Expo 2020. Interviewed, Labour Attache Delmer Cruz also stressed that the recruitment and hiring of Filipino household service workers
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10 December 2014, GulfNews.com Ministry of Labour trying out recruiting portal Dubai: Labourers or workers that have been recruited through a recruiting agency to the UAE are most at risk of human trafficking in the trial period — temporary work — and during change of sponsorship, a speaker at the conference said. Sultan Bin Juwe’ed,
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29 November 2014, The Guardian UAE projects involving major western museums accused of treating foreign labourers as modern-day slaves The United Nations is investigating the abuse of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, where the British Museum and other major western museums, including the Guggenheim, are involved in a multibillion-pound cultural hub. The move,
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26 October 2014, Dhaka Tribune The country will appoint a labour attaché at its embassy in Dhaka from the beginning of the next year. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will simplify the procedure of recruiting manpower from Bangladesh. To do it, the country will appoint a labour attaché at its embassy in Dhaka from the
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