New Age Bangladesh | 8 February 2019 In 2018, about 30,000 female housekeepers were sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without imparting any training at technical training centres. Out of 73,713 female workers sent to the KSA in 2018, according to availa... read more
South China Morning Post | 15 My 2019 The Labour Department should take more action to tackle domestic helper hiring agencies that provide a poor service to employers, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged. The Consumer Council received around 200 com... read more
The Straits Times | 2 January 2019 A planned scheme to grade maid employment agencies and boost the professionalism of the industry has been delayed for over a year after several issues were raised during consultation sessions. The Trustmark scheme was fi... read more
This three-part Policy Brief series identifies actions to develop and implement effective, rights-based and gender responsive protections for women workers migrating from South Asia to the Middle East. The policy briefs address three key stages during whi... read more
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... read more
The study aims to examine the extent to which domestic workers, employers, recruitment agencies and civil society that deal with domestic workers benefit from Law No. 68 on domestic workers, year 2015. The study also looks at the effectiveness of the impl... read more
Channel News Asia | 21 October 2018 SINGAPORE: In early October this year, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a local employment agency, with “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDW). The agency was found to have place... read more
GDN Online | 9 November 2018 THOUSANDS of runaway domestic workers in Bahrain are being given the opportunity to regularise their status under a new initiative. This is the first time domestic workers are being included in the flexible work permit scheme ... read more
Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Thursday (Oct 4) prosecuted SRC Recruitment and one of its Employment Agency (EA) employees, Erleena Mohd Ali, for “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic wo... read more
MENAFN | 24 September 2018 The Singapore government’s pilot Household Services Scheme has won plenty of support among foreign domestic workers, with some saying it offers higher earnings, greater freedom and more rest time. Introduced a year ago by ... read more