Kathmandu Post | 30 August 2018 Nepal and Malaysia are close to striking a historic pact that is expected to streamline the overall process of hiring Nepali workers as well as ensuring their labour rights. The two governments are currently reviewing the agreement’s draft and incorporating their respective concerns before the document is finalised. The […]
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Bernama | 11 August 2016 IPOH: The government will announce the new policy on recruitment of foreign workers on Tuesday, Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said. He said the policy, which will be more systematic, was formulated to ensure that the recruitment of foreign workers would be done in line with market demands. “The new
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By: Robin Agustin Free Malaysia Today | 6 August 2018 PETALING JAYA: The country’s largest employer and labour groups have urged the government to stop the outsourcing of foreign worker recruitment processes, which they say have pushed up costs and resulted in abuses. Speaking to FMT, Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan and Malaysian
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23 December 2015, The Nation An agreement between Thailand and Vietnam on migrant labour is expected to take effect early next year. Thailand is also preparing to take workers from two other Asean nations under memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for the upcoming Asean Economic Community. Labour Minister General Sirichai Dithakul met yesterday with delegates from Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia
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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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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 Mayer signed an agreement on Friday, revoking the ban on Nepali women caretakers in Israel. Five
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 service. The agreement was reached at the sixth ministerial conference between labor ministers of the two
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Karl Flecker & Teresa Healy, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY This publication “explore[s] a range of initiatives showing potential to effectively uphold, monitor and enforce adherence to labor regulation for workers employed under bilateral temporary migration schemes. Here we highlight two types of interventions intended to address rogue practices of labor brokers. First, we examine the
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29 June 2015, Malaysiakini.com MP SPEAKS Last Thursday, Home Affairs Minister Ahmad Zahid said approximately 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh would be brought to Malaysia in stages, over three years, to meet the demands of employers from various sectors. Yesterday he indicated that these workers will be brought into the country once the existing undocumented
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20 March 2015, Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The India government has issued an order yesterday banning overseas recruitment of nurses by private agencies stating that only an authorized government agency can conduct nursing recruitments. The order becomes effective from April 30, 2015. According to the government order, nursing recruitments to a foreign country from India can
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