News articles from around the world on migrant labour recruitment.
My Coast Now | 23 October 2018 The Minister of Labour, Harry Bains has introduced legislation aimed protecting the workers from unscrupulous employers or recruiters. “Some have worked or been housed in unfit, unsafe conditions, others been bullied and i... read more
Japan Times | 23 October 2018 Fourteen business sectors are keen to accept foreign workers under a new residence status that the government aims to introduce in April next year, informed sources said Tuesday. The fourteen sectors are: restaurants, hotels,... read more
The Asahin Shimbun | 23 October 2018 Cleaners, nursing care, restaurant and hotel staff are among foreign workers to be invited to Japan under plans to expand immigration to address the acute labor shortage. The government is considering taking in workers... read more
The Star Vancouver | 23 October 2018 VANCOUVER—B. C. Minister of Labour Harry Bains tabled Tuesday the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act in the B.C. legislature, which he says will fulfil the government’s promise to create a registry of employer... read more
Channel News Asia | 21 October 2018 SINGAPORE: In early October this year, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a local employment agency, with “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDW). The agency was found to have place... read more
Asian regional report based on the baseline survey and research done by the Migrant Forum in Asia and research partners in 11 countries in Asia This is a pioneering Asian regional study on the recruitment situation, issues, and problems experienced by mig... read more
The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor... read more
Gulf Business | 22 October 2018 Saudi unemployment remained steady in the second quarter after increasing in the first three months of the year as foreign workers continued to leave the country. General Authority for Statistics figures showed the unemploy... read more
Japan Times | 2 November 2018 The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. ... read more
Scroll.In | 22 October 2018 The government says that the decline in emigrants is because of a slowdown in the Gulf economy related to falling oil prices. But recruitment agents channelling workers to Gulf countries and prospective employees pin the blame ... read more