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Japan opens labor market to OFWs
Manila Times | 21 January 2019 Labor Undersecretary Jacinto Paras, cluster head in-charge for the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), said on Sunday that he was closely coordinating with
Govt to freshly decide about sending female workers to ME: planning minister
New Age Bangladesh | 20 January 2019 Stating that sending female workers to Middle East countries is ‘very sensitive’, planning minister MA Mannan has said that the government will take new decision about sending female workers to the ME countries con
Amendment to the FAR Rule on Human Trafficking Defines “Recruitment Fees”
The National Law Review | 14 January 2019 On December 20, 2018, the FAR Council published a final rule amending the FAR rule on human trafficking to provide a definition of “recruitment fees.” Federal Acquisition Regulation: Combating Trafficking in P
Action Research on Recruitment Trends
“The Kafala System: When Employers Also Accepted to Share their Perspective”
Insan Association, Lebanon – July, 2014 INTRODUCTION Years ago the issue of Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in Lebanon began to surface in international media. This came as a result of efforts by civil society organizations, including Insan Associat
“The Legal Framework of the Sponsorship Systems of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, & Kuwait: A Comparative Examination”
Maysa Zahra, Migration Policy Centre & Gulf Research Centre / Gulf Labour Markets & Migration, July 2014 ABSTRACT The sponsorship system of the Arab Gulf countries comprises rules and regulations that tie the residence of a migrant worker to his/h
Visas, Inc.
Ashwani Sukthankar, Global Workers Justice Alliance 2012 Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Vis