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Gulf ministers urged to improve labour law protection

24 November 2014, ArabianBusiness.com Labour ministers from Gulf and Asian countries meeting later this week have been urged to improve labour law protection, reform abusive immigration policies, and increase dialogue with trade unions and non-governmental groups. A total of 90 human rights organisations and unions have issued a joint statement calling for action to protect […]

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Gulf Countries: Increase Migrant Worker Protection, Says HRW

22 November 2014, EurasiaReview.com Labor ministers from Gulf and Asian countries meeting on November 26 and 27, 2014, should improve labor law protection, reform abusive immigration policies, and increase dialogue with trade unions and nongovernmental groups, 90 human rights organizations and unions said today. Millions of contract workers from Asia and Africa, including an estimated

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Cheated Migrant Workers form Human Chain for Compensation

25 September 2014, Dhaka Tribune Ershad, one of the protesters, said the workers were sent to Sudan in January this year with employment at a textile company, where they worked for eight months without proper wages. A group of cheated migrant workers formed a human chain in the capital yesterday demanding the compensation that the

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Migrant workers in Jordan face abuse

25 August 2014, The Daily Star Lebanon When Lucy met a representative of a Jordanian employment agency in the Philippines, the official promised her a sales position in Jordan with a salary increase after two months, allowing Lucy to send money back to her family overseas. Lucy, a Filipino migrant worker in Amman, Jordan, requested

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Migrant workers ‘abandoned’

22 August 2014, The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 200 Cambodian migrant workers who were scammed by their broker and then abandoned south of Bangkok earlier this week are among the latest victims falling between the cracks of an ill-defined labour registration system, according to rights experts. The 180 Cambodian migrants were taken to southern Thailand

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Filipino carpenters rely on charity to get by

5 August 2014, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand A group of Filipino carpenters recruited to work in Christchurch’s rebuild had no work when they arrived and had to rely on charity to get by. Recruitment and labour hire company Adecco promised fulltime jobs to a group of about 12 workers coming from the Philippines to work on

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“Ontario government introduces law to protect vulnerable workers”

Robert Benzie, Toronto Star, 16 July 2014 Labour Minister Kevin Flynn revives Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act that would clamp down on employers and employment agencies who violate workers’ rights. Lilliane Namukasa knows what it’s like to be a vulnerable worker. So the 27-year-old, who arrived from Uganda in 2008 to work as

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