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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs

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25 February 2015 Tech Investor News,  The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-European data scientists, senior developers, cyber security specialists and product managers. The MAC is an independent body […]

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The 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda

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17 February 2015, New Vision KAMPALA – The Ugandan ministry of gender, labour and social development has released a list (at bottom of page) of only 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda. The companies complied with the requirements of externalization of labour, most of which is to countries in the Middle East, according

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South Korea to Double Cambodian Migrant Worker Permits

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17 February 2015, The Cambodia Daily The South Korean government will double the number of Cambodian migrant workers who are granted permits to take up employment in the country’s manufacturing, construction and agriculture sectors each year, officials said on Monday. There are currently more than 35,000 Cambodians working in South Korea who send home remittances

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Going to debt mountain

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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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Apple ends system of recruitment fees that tied labor to contractors

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11 February 2015, PC World Apple has forced its suppliers to end a form of “bonded labor” that saddled assembly line workers with unnecessary hiring fees, and put them in debt to third-party recruiters. The requirement went into effect starting this year, the company said on Wednesday in its latest supplier responsibility report, which examines

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Malaysia no longer allowed to recruit RI workers directly

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10 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri, who accompanied President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s on his recent state visit to Malaysia, has announced that Malaysian employers will no longer be allowed to recruit Indonesian workers directly. “All recruitment of Indonesian workers for employment in Malaysia must be conducted by authorized labor-supplying companies in

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KSA to recruit 10,000 workers every month for free

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10 February 2015, Dhaka Tribune Saudi Arabia is going to import around 10,000 workers from Bangladesh every month in 10 categories of household jobs, free of cost. The decision came at a meeting between Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and a 19-member delegation led by Saudi Deputy Minister for International Affairs

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Indonesian Maids: Use One Channel To Recruit Indonesian Maids Hopefully Resolve Problems

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6 February 2015, Bernama.com It is hoped that the measure taken by the Malaysian and Indonesian governments to use only one channel for the recruitment of domestic maids from the republic will resolve all issues arising in respect to the foreign workers’ welfare in this country. This was stated by Human Resource Deputy Minister Datuk

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