Porimol Palma 12:00 AM, December 11, 2016 / Daily Star A nexus between the employers of migrant workers overseas and illegal manpower brokers there is jacking up the migration cost of Bangladeshi workers. Recruiting agents and illegal brokers in the Gulf and Southeast Asian regions “buy” work visas from overseas employers and then “sell” those […]
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3 March 2016, Thompson Reuters The Ministry of Labor has emphasized that it is implementing regulations against illegal brokers and middlemen in the recruitment of domestic workers. The ministry said it was keeping a watch on recruitment agents in countries with which the ministry had signed agreements for sending domestic workers to the Kingdom. The
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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 Labour Ith Samheng, is part of the government’s efforts to improve safety for migrants,
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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 to establish their business contacts and partners abroad, the labour minister, Ngeema Sangay Tshempo pointed out to
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22 December 2015, Cebu Daily News Cebu City Acting Mayor Edgardo Labella told the City Treasurer’s Office to strictly evaluate applications for business permits of labor recruitment agencies following reports reaching the City Council of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) being abused by their employers abroad or shortchanged by their agencies. READ THE FULL ARTICLE
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15 September 2015, The Financial Express Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur have agreed to integrate private recruiters with the existing G to G (government to government) arrangement to speed up manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. As part of the step, a Memorandum of Understanding on G to G-plus will be signed today (Tuesday), said expatriates’ welfare minister
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27 July 2015, GMA News Online Philippine and Israel officials are pushing for the early approval of a bilateral labor agreement that will benefit more or less 20,000 Filipino caregivers in the Middle Eastern country. A statement from the Philippine Embassy in Israel said Ambassador Nathaniel G. Imperial met with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and
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11 May 2015, Rappler MANILA, Philippines – The use of mega-recruiters or large-scale recruitment entities in Gulf states is “a system worth trying for domestic workers” to counter the ill effects of a visa sponsorship set-up that has oppresed many migrant workers, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Hans Leo Cacdac said. Under the Kafala
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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, 2014 Executive Summary This report reveals the reality of international labor recruitment for low-wage, temporary jobs in the United States, examining recruitment in Mexico, home to the largest number of temporary migrants who labor under H-2 visas in the U.S.1 The findings are based on data gathered by Centro
5 May 2015, Migrant-Rights.org In the villages, there is a saviour and he is simply called ‘agent’. He takes on the garb of the bogeyman in global migration narratives. The corrupt recruitment agent preying on gullible citizens and packing them off to hostile shores. The truth lies between the two guises. There has been little
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