visa – Recruitment Reform

Explainer: 10 things about free-visa-free-ticket for Nepali migrant workers

7 September 2015, Kathmandu Post Free-visa-free-ticket is a newly enforced provision of the Government of Nepal that came into effect from July 8 this year. It basically obligates the employers from labour receiving countries to bear cost of visa processing and air ticket to hire workers from Nepal. Until now, most migrant workers took hefty […]

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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs

25 February 2015 Tech Investor News, The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-European data scientists, senior developers, cyber security specialists and product managers. The MAC is an independent body

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Gulf country job racket busted, three held with 200 passports

31 January 2015, Press Trust of India Police today busted a Gulf country job racket by arresting three persons and seized over 200 passports from them. Based on credible information, the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, (North Zone) nabbed the agents who were cheating the unemployed youth and carrying the business of recruitment for deployment

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A Nightmare on Recruitment Street

7 December 2014, bqdoha.com A businessman’s tale of how things went horribly wrong. Last year, in August, my firm was subcontracted to work on a very prominent project in Qatar. I needed slightly over 200 skilled civil workers for the project and I decided to fly to Katmandu, Nepal, when the recruitment agency told me

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Milk company made worker pay for job

18 November, 2014 – NZCity News A milk distribution company in Christchurch has been fined for charging a migrant worker fees for her job after they helped her get a work visa. A Christchurch milk distribution company has been fined $5000 for illegally charging a migrant worker a fee for her job after they helped

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Govt, Fronditha strike overseas recruitment deal

8 August 2014, Australian Ageing Agenda Ethno-specific aged care provider Fronditha Care has been given the green light to sponsor 60 overseas personal care workers in the first agreement to be struck with the Federal Government. It comes amid growing calls for personal care workers to be added to the Skilled Occupations List. The three-year

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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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“Plight of migrant workers have worsened after Arab Spring”

Fawaz Shaheen, Times of India, 5 July 2014 As the freedom of trapped Indian nurses in Iraq generates a collective sigh of relief, their story also underlines a rarely discussed issue; the abuse and exploitation of Indian migrant workers in Gulf and Arab countries. Most Gulf countries require foreign workers to have a ‘kafeel’ or

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