17 April 2015, The Straits Times Opinion Piece by Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, President, Transient Worker Count Too (TWC2), Singapore I WELCOME the perceptive and forceful comments made by manpower correspondent Toh Yong Chuan on the subject of migrant workers being crammed into premises where their lives are at risk should a fire break out (“Take action […]
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19 February 2015, Aljazeera America Qatar announced Thursday that it was introducing labor law reforms to aimed at ensuring that thousands of migrant workers building venues for the 2022 World Cup are paid on time. The news comes months after the U.N. urged the Gulf nation to amend its labor practices and only a few days before
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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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11 February 2015, PC World Apple has forced its suppliers to end a form of “bonded labor” that saddled assembly line workers with unnecessary hiring fees, and put them in debt to third-party recruiters. The requirement went into effect starting this year, the company said on Wednesday in its latest supplier responsibility report, which examines
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23 January 2015, GCR Government pushes Qatar to set a minimum wage for 400,000 migrant workers and cut out private labour agencies The government of Nepal has set out a raft of measures to prevent its citizens from being exploited when they work abroad, with particular emphasis on regulating the conduct of labour agencies that
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30 January 2015, NITI Central India declared “national mourning” on January 24 as a mark of respect for Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz who died on January 23. The national flag was flown at half-mast throughout the country. As the 79-year-old king Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, who is not in good health, nominates the princes and
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28 November 2014, The World Post Qatar is signaling rejection of demands by human rights and trade union activists to grant trade union and collective bargaining rights to its majority migrant worker population with the detention and likely deportation of more than 100 predominantly South Asian laborers, who went on strike to protest low pay
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26 November 2014, The Daily Star BEIRUT: A conference aimed at tackling conditions of migrant domestic workers, including risks of abuse by their employers, was held Wednesday, amid increasing cases of foreign housemaids committing suicide in Lebanon. Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi emphasized the urgent need to regulate the employment of migrant workers on the basis
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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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30 September 2014, People’s World Three times each month, dozens of women gather in dusty courtyards in rural towns in Manikganj, Dinazpur or other districts across Bangladesh to learn all they can about the only means by which they can support their families: migrating to another country for work. In leading these information sessions, the
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