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Japan to toughen controls on brokers for foreign workers as it prepares to bring in blue-collar labor
Japan Times | 30 January 2019 The government is planning to strengthen regulations on brokers who collect large sums from foreign nationals seeking to work in Japan as the country prepares to bring in blue-collar workers from overseas under new visas. Acc
30,000 female workers sent to KSA without training in 2018
New Age Bangladesh | 8 February 2019 In 2018, about 30,000 female housekeepers were sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without imparting any training at technical training centres. Out of 73,713 female workers sent to the KSA in 2018, according to availa
Poor service and dodgy practices blight Hong Kong’s domestic helper hiring agencies, says consumer watchdog as it urges authorities to crack down
South China Morning Post | 15 My 2019 The Labour Department should take more action to tackle domestic helper hiring agencies that provide a poor service to employers, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged. The Consumer Council received around 200 com
Action Research on Recruitment Trends
Policy Brief on Practices and Regulations of Recruitment to Domestic Work
The policy brief highlights common recruitment practices and regulations observed along recruitment pathways to domestic work in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan and Lebanon. The purpose of this policy brief is to respond to the rising interest in improvi
Employer-Migrant Worker Relationships in the Middle East: Exploring scope for internal labour market mobility and fair migration
Current sponsorship regimes in the Middle East have been criticized for creating an asymmetrical power relationship between employers and migrant workers – which can make workers vulnerable to forced labour. Essential to the vulnerability of migrant wor
Law and practice: the recruitment of low-skilled Pakistani workers for overseas employment
The report studies the prevailing recruitment practices in Pakistan with a focus on low-skilled migrant workers. It describes the current legal and policy frameworks, looks at actual practices and provides recommendations on how to make enforcement of rec