14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of […]
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31 January 2015, Press Trust of India Police today busted a Gulf country job racket by arresting three persons and seized over 200 passports from them. Based on credible information, the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, (North Zone) nabbed the agents who were cheating the unemployed youth and carrying the business of recruitment for deployment
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13 July 2014, DOHA News The system of recruiting and hiring semi- and unskilled expats to work in Qatar is riddled with “endemic corruption” and unethical practices that result in trafficking, debt bondage and forced labor, according to a new report commissioned by Qatar Foundation. The 160-page document, Migrant Labor Recruitment to Qatar, calls for an
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25 June 2014, GMA News A recruitment agency suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration got into deeper trouble after its president admitted his company had an unlicensed firm doing actual recruitment.POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac on Tuesday said he ordered a second case lodged against Memere International Recruitment Company Inc., after its president paid
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