13 February 2016, Migrants-Rights Qatar’s failure is due largely to its stubborn stand of not recognising migrant workers as critical players in national building, deserving of equal status. It is also in part due to weak implementation of existing ... read more
12 February 2016, Videonews Cambodian Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng has met with his Saudi counterpart in Riyadh, where the two inked a memorandum of understanding — the first in a series of steps to send Cambodians to work in the Gulf country. However, t... read more
12 February 2016, Sun Star Manila FROM being a government-to-government arrangement, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has decided to open the deployment of Filipino nurses to Germany to private recruitment agencies. Based on POEA G... read more
2 February 2016, The Daily Star Around 3 lakh registered Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia would have to pay the levy previously paid by their employers as the country yesterday imposed a new levy on foreign workers. “The Malaysian employers usual... read more
The ILO launched this global multistakeholder initiative to help prevent human trafficking and forced labour; protect the rights of workers, including migrant workers, from abusive and fraudulent practices during the recruitment process; reduce the... read more
29 January 2016, Open Democracy Labour migrants, like all of us, are complex human beings who make difficult choices regarding their available options, yet strategies to end trafficking and coercive migrant labour practices rarely take migrant agency into... read more
25 January 2016, The Phnom Penh Post The Ministry of Labour on Saturday issued a 12-point set of standards for recruitment agencies sending workers abroad, warning operators they have just over a month to comply. The directive, issued by Minister of Labou... read more
19 January 2016, The Rakyat Post Myanmar recruiters reportedly will no longer be sending migrant workers to Malaysia to protest against the almost tenfold increase in visa fee, from US$6 (RM26) to US$57 (RM250) which came into effect recently. The Myanmar... read more
19 January 2016, Arab News The Ministry of Labor granted 48 new licenses to recruitment offices of household workers located in various areas of the Kingdom, as well as preliminary approvals to 149 others. This comes as part of the ministry’s recent eff... read more
16 January 2016, Kuensel Online Despite several complaints against overseas employment agents, the labour ministry says the agents have improved their service delivery over the years. The initiative of finding jobs overseas was new, and agents need time t... read more