Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, 2014 Executive Summary This report reveals the reality of international labor recruitment for low-wage, temporary jobs in the United States, examining recruitment in Mexico, home to the largest number of temporary migr... read more
20 April 2015, The Daily Star Bangladeshi migrant workers pay the highest recruitment costs in the world, the World Bank said in a report. Citing a recent survey by the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, the WB said worker-paid rec... read more
17 April 2015, The Straits Times Opinion Piece by Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, President, Transient Worker Count Too (TWC2), Singapore I WELCOME the perceptive and forceful comments made by manpower correspondent Toh Yong Chuan on the subject of migrant wor... read more
15 April 2015, Focus Taiwan News Channel Jakarta, April 15 (CNA) The Indonesian government said Wednesday it is determined to help lower the brokerage fees for its citizens seeking work in other countries, including Taiwan. Nusron Wahid, head of the Agenc... read more
13 April 2015, The Straights Times/Singapore THE practice has been outlawed and many have been caught, but some employers here are still collecting kickbacks from foreign workers, said migrant worker groups, employment agencies and workers. These extortio... read more
10 April 2015, Kathmandu Post APR 10 – Earlier this week, Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al-Khulaifi, the Qatari Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, and his team came to Kathmandu to talk about the labour issues between Nepal and Qatar. Minister Al-Khula... read more
10 April 2015, Staffing Industry Analysis An association of global electronics companies voted to prohibit the charging of recruitment fees to workers, either by recruiters or directly by employers. The Electronics Industry Citizenship Council said exces... read more
10 April 2015, Nepali Times We doubt the zero-cost agreement between Qatar and Nepal this week will come into force because there is too much money to be made on the blood, sweat and tears of Nepali workers by the politically-connected manpower mafia. For... read more
5 April 2015, Nepali Times Nepal and Qatar governments have vowed to crack down on manpower agencies that illegally charge money from the Qatar-bound Nepali migrant workers. “Nepalis need not pay a single rupee to go to work in Qatar,” said Tek Bahadu... read more
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 effecti... read more