24 February 2015, Arab News Female domestic workers registered the highest recruiting costs on the Ministry of Labor’s Musaned web page, with an increase of more than ten times the costs to recruit men in other professions, according to the latest data posted on the website. Costs to recruit a Vietnamese female worker stood at […]
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14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of
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28 November 2014, Arab News Manpower firms in the Saudi market responded to the Ministry of Labor’s pressure and published the prices and the cost of recruiting domestic workers on the “Mosanid” website before the deadline, next Monday. As of yesterday, 166 out of 329 certified recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have published the costs
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19 November 2014, GMA News Online The Philippines is not the only country exerting efforts to protect its migrant workers against abusive hiring practices. In a conference last week, other Southeast Asian nations shared their own methods of keeping their overseas workers—especially the women, who are more prone to abuses—safe. Hosted by the Philippine Commission
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17 September 2014, New York Times Nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia’s thriving electronics industry toils under forced labor conditions, essentially trapped in the job, a factory monitoring group found in a report issued on Wednesday. The monitoring group, Verité — which conducted a two-year investigation commissioned by the United States Department of
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28 August 2014, Vietnam.net A senior labour official on August 28 quashed rumours that contractors at the Vung Ang economic zone in central Ha Tinh province are recruiting 10,000 Chinese employees, saying this is false information. Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam said at a press conference of the government
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4 August 2014, Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Kingdom will soon start recruiting housemaids from Vietnam and Nepal, according to Deputy Labor Minister Mofarej Al-Haqbani. “Agreements to this effect will be signed with the two countries before the Haj season in October,” he told Okaz/Saudi Gazette on Sunday during an Eid party organized by his
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1 August 2014, Bangkok Post The Labour Ministry is ready to import Bangladeshi labourers to work in the fishing industry if there is still a worker shortage following registrations of migrant workers from three neighbouring countries. Permanent secretary for labour Jeerasak Sukhonthachart yesterday said Bangladesh’s ambassador to Thailand Kazi Imtiaz Hossain recently met him to
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