The Guardian | 8 November 2018 Two years after migrants working for global electronics firms in Malaysia complained of labour abuses, change seems slow. Every day, the men who live here work on factory lines making components used by Samsung Electronics, one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. Last year, Samsung made a […]
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Published by Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) Singapore and Liberty Shared The report examines the issue of forced labour (FL) among Singapore’s migrant domestic worker (MDW) population. Enaged in essential care and household work, live-in domestic workers are recognized as particularly vulnerable to labour and human rights violations. As a community, domestic workers are
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The Guardian | 29 October 2018 The Guardian has found evidence that hotel staff in the world’s richest country are paid below the minimum wage for enduring long shifts in intense heat The Marsa Malaz Kempinski hotel rises like a fairytale palace from a manmade island on an exclusive stretch of Qatar’s coastline. Even by
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Asia Times | 5 September 2018 Qatar, the host of the 2022 World Cup, has gone to great lengths to assure the international community labor conditions are improving for workers. But on the ground, foreign laborers told Asia Times they are still working on tourist visas, unable to benefit from landmark labor reforms – or
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The policy brief maps common recruitment practices and regulations observed along recruitment pathways to garment and textile work in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan and Lebanon. This policy brief responds to a growing interest among policymakers and practitioners in improving recruitment practices and regulations with an eye to reducing vulnerability to human trafficking and forced labour
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Kate Hodal and Annie Kelly Monday 21 November 2016 05.00 GMT / The Guardian When it comes to electronics, what Malaysia makes matters. According to a 2014 study “virtually every device on the market today” – from tablets to laser printers to microwaves – is likely to have involved Malaysia in some way. Once a
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15 March 2016, The Wall Street Journal The plight of domestic workers in Hong Kong has made headlines in recent years after several high-profile cases in which employers had beat and tortured their helpers. A new study shows that, far from being isolated cases, instances of abuse are more routine and widespread than previously suspected.
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Apple Inc., 2015 Apple’s Supplier Responsibility Report is relevant to the Recruitment Reform Campaign’s call for Zero Recruitment Fees for migrant workers. The report includes a a discussion on recruitment fees. Please check page 18 under: Eliminating Recruitment Fees and Bonded Labour under the chapter on Labour and Human Rights. The following is stated: “To protect
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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, including migrant workers, from abusive and fraudulent practices during the recruitment and placement process (including pre-selection, selection, transportation, placement and safe return)
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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
