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Re-regulating the Private Power of Labor Brokers

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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Brokers swaying demand for migrant workers?

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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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Migration blues: Ten reasons to be careful about agencies

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13 May 2015, GraphicOnline Ghanaians overseas contribute over four billion US dollars – according to the Bank of Ghana — annually to our economy through remittances. These remittances form a lifeline for educating family members back at home, providing for their survival paying for health care among others. Many travel to be able to support

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Labour exploitation, slave-like conditions found on farms supplying biggest supermarkets

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4 May 2015, ABC (Australia) Conclusive evidence of extreme labour exploitation, slave-like conditions and black market labour gangs has been found on farms and in factories supplying Australia’s biggest supermarkets and fast food chains. A Four Corners investigation has revealed the food being picked, packed and processed by exploited workers is being sold to consumers

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Can data help end forced labor?

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29 April 2015, Devex Two years after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh killed more than 1,100 workers and injured 2,515 — the deadliest garment factory accident on record — donors and entrepreneurs are calling upon the power of data to prevent forced labor worldwide. Labor trafficking is becoming harder to track as companies’

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Migrant Tech Workers Abused by Contract Labor Firms, Investigation Shows

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30 October 2014, IEEE Spectrum California has a migrant worker problem. Reading that statement you’d likely picture a farmworker from Mexico or Central America. But you’d be wrong. It’s migrant tech workers, holders of H-1B visas, mostly from India, who are being abused. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) together with NBC Bay Area have

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Job brokers steal wages, entrap Indian tech workers in US

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27 October 2014, Center for Investigative Reporting Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies have hijacked a professional visa program, creating an underground system of financial bondage by stealing wages and benefits, even suing workers who quit. About 840,000 people from around the world work in the United States on temporary visas, intended

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