Three-Month “Grace Period” for Irregular Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia (0)
5/07/13 •
A great number of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia every year end up stranded in the country after employers having been cheated and abused by their employers. Unscrupulous employers in the Kingdom commonly confiscate their workers’ passports and make them work for little or no pay at all. Without either legal documents or money to [...]
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Unions in Egypt and Jordan Join Together for Migrant Workers’ Rights (0)
4/30/13 •
Long working hours with low pay, confiscation of passports and employers withholding wages are some of the issues faced by migrant workers in Jordan. The construction workers unions in Jordan and Egypt have now committed to cooperate to defend their rights. Together they will strengthen the efforts to organize the workers moving across the boarders. [...]
Chile: Work Permits for Migrant Workers Increase by Nearly 900% (Comments Off)
4/15/13 •
According to the Immigration Department of the Ministry of the Interior, the number of work permits granted increased by 895.96% from 2008 to 2012. Economic growth, low unemployment and subdued inflation are identified by experts as factors attracting foreigners to come to live in Chile.
Among the countries from where permit requests grew most was Haiti, [...]
Trade Unions Unite in Latin America to Promote the Rights of Migrant Workers (Comments Off)
4/15/13 •
The leaders of BWI affiliates in South America’s Southern Cone and Central America came together in a workshop on “organising migrant workers in the construction industry”. The aim of the Santiago, Chile, gathering was to define strategies for the regional protection of migrant workers’ rights. Participating in this activity were BWI-affiliated organisations from Chile, FETRACOMA [...]
Nitaqat Labour Law: TCWF Appeals for safeguarding interests of (Comments Off)
4/15/13 •
In 2011 the Saudi Government introduced a new policy of Nitaqat (2011) which was designed to accelerate the nationalization process by making it mandatory for employers to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers in their business establishment. The Saudi government has further classified the labour market into 42 categories and the firms [...]
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