Govt to train 1,000 workers of each upazila for overseas jobs
New Age Bangladesh | 22 January 2019 The government has taken a plan to select and train 1,000 workers in each up
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Bangladesh sets sights on recruitment brokers to curb abuse and trafficking
Thomson Reuters Foundation | 11 February 2019 DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh is planning to sideline unscrupulous recruitment brokers who dupe or exploit workers they send abroad by compiling a list of certified agents as record num
Opening manpower agencies to cost a fortune
The Himalayan Times | 11 February 2019 A parliamentary panel has endorsed a proposal to jack up cash deposit and bank guarantee required to establish a manpower agency by up to 29 times and 17 times, respectively, in a bid to tighten the noose around comp
Qatar-Tajikistan pact on workers’ recruitment
The Peninsula Qatar | 4 February 2019 Doha: The State of Qatar and the Republic of Tajikistan signed yesterday an agreement on the regulations of workers recruitment from Tajikistan to work in Qatar. The agreement was signed by Minister of Administrative
Action Research on Recruitment Trends
No easy exit – Migration bans affecting women from Nepal
The ILO undertook this study with the Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW). It explores whether Nepal’s age ban deterred younger women from migrating for domestic work and improved working conditions for women migrant domestic workers ov
Working Paper on Operational Parameters to Assess Fair Recruitment Practices
In South Asia, the pathways to jobs in domestic, garment or other similar sectors within the region or to the Middle East are intersected by various agents or contractors in an environment shaped by multiple rules and practices determining the mobility of
FAIR SHARE? International recruitment in the Philippines
This working paper identifies the good practices applied by those private employment agencies that adopt fair recruitment principles for prospective migrant workers. It also describes the challenges that such recruiters face, including the bottlenecks and