2 September 2015, The Daily Star Recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have decided to stop hiring Bangladeshi domestic workers, claiming that a supply crunch has raised costs, says Arab News. According to a report the local English daily ran yesterday, Ibr... read more
11 August 2015 The thematic section of the SR’s report discusses the impact of recruitment practices on the human rights of migrants, particularly low-wage workers, during labour migration. The report outlines the trends relating to recruitment prac... read more
7 August 2015, Nepali Times Nepal and Israel have signed an agreement allowing Nepali women to work as caretakers in the Jewish state. Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE)’s Director General Bharat Raj Subedi and Israeli ambassador to Nepal Yaron May... read more
4 August 2015, WantChinaTimes.com Workers from the Philippines will be able to travel to Taiwan for work in two or three weeks at the earliest after Taiwan and the Philippines signed cooperation guidelines Monday on worker recruitment, management and serv... read more
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 Embass... read more
19 July 2015, Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, JUL 19 – In a bid to institutionalise the newly introduced provision of free visa and ticket, the government has planned to mention “minimum cost recruitment” in all bilateral labour agreements it signs wi... read more
ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative, 24 June 2015 Study on Bangladesh’s efforts to make international recruitment cost effective, transparent, and consistent by bringing into force a variety of measures. Regulatory governance of international recruitmen... read more
In response to the challenges of migrant labour recruitment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched in 2014 a global “Fair Recruitment Initiative” to: help prevent human trafficking and forced labour protect the rights of workers, incl... read more
29 June 2015, Daily News Overseas recruitment firms in Nepal picketed the country’s Department of Foreign Employment (DOFE) last week. Demanding that the new mandate that foreign employers pay visa and travel fees for Nepalese migrant workers be revoked... read more
14 May 2015, The Daily Star Two migrant workers returned from Brunei penniless early today after they were cheated by two Bangladeshi recruiting agencies with the promise of lucrative salaries abroad. Arriving at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in ... read more