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Migrant labourers are going to get work-related injury insurance. (chinadaily.com.cn)
The lockdown measures in Thailand have caused tens of thousands of jobless migrant labourers to return to their hometowns in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. (bangkokpost.com)
Up till now, the labour department has collected Rs 3,915 cr in cess in Bengaluru alone, the bulk of which has not reached the migrant construction labourers. (deccanherald.com)
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday interacted with a group of migrant labourers near the Sukhdev Vihar flyover and asked them about their problems as they walked home amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown. (rediff.com)
Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra later tweeted thanking Rahul Gandhi and saying that someone has to talk to these migrant labourers and hear their ordeal. (rediff.com)
The Congress has been highlighting the problem of migrant labourers and workers walking on the roads without food and water. (rediff.com)
Migrant labourers in large numbers have been seen walking down the roads in the absence of public transport amid the lockdown in their bid to return to their native villages. (rediff.com)
Over 100 migrant labourers from Kallakurichi district, who were working at an ice factory in the Malim Fisheries Cooperative in Goa, are now stranded there, unable to return to their home towns as a result of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. (thehindu.com)

Bui Thi Nhung, a Vietnamese migrant worker working in New Taipei, Taiwan, at the technology giant Garmin informed management that she was pregnant in March 2023. (corpwatch.org)

The estimated 250,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are excluded from labor law protections. (hrw.org)
Lebanon is home to over 250,000 migrant domestic workers (MDWs), who come from African and Asian countries and work in private households. (change.org)

The lack of government regulation of employers that hire migrant workers means that the workers work long hours in adverse conditions for little pay. (wikipedia.org)
Additionally, they are at constant risk of sudden deportation, which leads to migrant workers accepting poor working conditions and unlivable wages from their employers. (wikipedia.org)
This leads to employers exploiting migrant workers by subjecting them to unhealthy working conditions for poverty wages. (wikipedia.org)
Chen said migrant workers who suffered work injuries and vocational damages in those sectors often found themselves in a hopeless position as their employers refused to pay compensation for severe work injuries, vocational diseases or loss of lives. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Besides, migrant workers are often stigmatised and abused by their employers, not to mention the other hardships they face such as separation from their families and language barriers in the workplace. (bangkokpost.com)
The 10-member grouping promoted the Asean Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) as a platform to review, discuss, and exchange ideas between governments, civil society, as well as employers and labour's organisations. (bangkokpost.com)
The ILO project "Promoting Decent Work through Improved Migration Policy and its Application in Bangladesh" aims at improving the overall labour migration governance by supporting the tripartite - the government, workers organizations and employers organizations - and other key stakeholders. (ilo.org)
The Protecting Vulnerable Workers amendments to the Fair Work Act allow for massive penalties against employers that breach them. (smh.com.au)
The Turnbull government will not tolerate the exploitation of workers by unscrupulous employers, which is why we passed the Vulnerable Workers Act,'' he said. (smh.com.au)
The Internal Security Forces told Human Rights Watch that they had completed an investigation after speaking with Lelisa, another migrant domestic worker in the house, the employers, two forensic doctors, and the Ethiopian Embassy, and sent their report to the prosecutor's office. (hrw.org)
The kafal a sponsorship system subjects migrant domestic workers to restrictive rules under which they cannot leave or change jobs without their employer-sponsor's consent, giving employers a large degree of control over workers' lives and placing the workers at risk of exploitation and abuse. (hrw.org)
A consultation with returned migrant workers from the Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Dubai identified that lack of language skills affected their relationship with the employers and caused frustration on both sides. (ilo.org)
The workers were not able to understand or respond to the instructions of the employers and were also unable to discuss their needs, living related problems and issues related to wages. (ilo.org)
The workers who understood and spoke a little Arabic, shared that they were treated better by the employers. (ilo.org)
The workers shared commonly used words with their employers and the employers' family members. (ilo.org)
An interesting finding from this consultation was that those workers who complained of being abused by the employers were also to willing to aboard again for employment if they were to receive relevant vocational and language training. (ilo.org)
In addition working with the lead ministry and the ILO constituents, namely, workers and employers organizations has pursued a variety of partnership models with research, educational, civil society and government organizations. (ilo.org)
As the year draws to its end, a campaign to rectify the malpractice of employers defaulting on migrant workers' payment is being launched throughout the country. (china.org.cn)
At the heart of the abuse was Qatar's 'Kafala' system of sponsorship-based employment which legally bound foreign workers to their employers, preventing them from changing jobs or even leaving the country without their employer's permission. (amnesty.org)
He says employers have little incentive to use the legal program when there are thousands of cheaper undocumented workers at their doorstep. (kpbs.org)
Her office attempts to help workers who aren't being treated fairly by employers. (kpbs.org)
This has been been highlighted by the International Trade Union Confederation, which has criticized Qatar's system of sponsorship which ties workers to employers and has been abused in the past. (cnn.com)
Only by protecting equal social and labour rights for all workers can we stop a race to the bottom where employers drive down working conditions for everyone. (waronwant.org)
Councils, employers and support groups are trying to keep migrants safe as health messages are not always getting across. (abc.net.au)
They connect the workers to employers in the United States, without any inspections from Mexico's Labour Secretariat (ministry), in part because there is no bilateral agreement with the U.S. on the issue. (ipsnews.net)
Prohibit employers found to be holding the personal documents of migrant workers, such as passports or health cards, from participating in the TFWP. (globenewswire.com)
Prevent employers that have engaged in unfair labour practices, such as blacklisting a worker, from participating in any other federal or provincial temporary foreign worker program. (globenewswire.com)
Replace closed work permits with sectoral permits that allow migrant workers to change employers within the agricultural sector across Canada. (globenewswire.com)
The main legal document that outlines the rights and obligations of domestic workers and their employers is the unified standard contract, introduced by the Ministry of Labour in 2009. (change.org)
The design will be based on a bottom-up approach where workers' needs inform the programme, with input from other key stakeholders, including local NGOs, trade unions, communities, and employers. (ethicaltrade.org)
They point to the widespread wage theft, forced overtime, abysmal living conditions, passport confiscation, and everyday abuse that the migrants from Asia and Africa building the World Cup still experience despite reforms to the kafala system that bound workers to their employers. (princeton.edu)

Some countries have millions of migrant workers. (wikipedia.org)
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security said priority will be given this year to millions of migrant workers in construction, mining and other sectors where employees are more likely to sustain industrial injuries or vocational damages. (chinadaily.com.cn)

The abuse and exploitation endured by migrant workers, however, is not just evidence of privatization run amok: It is also symptomatic of these workers' political utility to Washington. (merip.org)
They have amplified campaigns documenting the abuses and exploitation endured by migrant workers who built the eight hyper-designed stadiums for the cup. (princeton.edu)

PUTRAJAYA: The National Human Rights Society (Hakam) has called on the government to respect and safeguard the dignity and rights of migrant workers in Malaysia in its International Migrants Day message. (thestar.com.my)
TORONTO, Dec. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, on International Migrants Day, Canada's food workers' union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), is calling on the federal government to stand up for the rights of migrant and temporary foreign workers by enacting urgent reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), and the program's primary agricultural stream in particular. (globenewswire.com)

In the process of these actions, religious and civil society organization became sympathetic to the plight of migrant workers and eventually came to the agreement that the law had to be changed in order to ameliorate the problem. (koreatimes.co.kr)

Promoting fair treatment of migrant workers and protecting them from abuse, exploitation and violence are goals the Asean community has yet to achieve. (bangkokpost.com)

It is a stark reminder that the health of migrant workers is pivotal for the country's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. (bangkokpost.com)
Country brief prepared by the ILO's Country Office for Thailand on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers, and country's responses. (ilo.org)
With migrant workers making up more than 90% of the country's workforce, it was clear that the weight of delivering these projects would rest overwhelmingly on the shoulders of all those who travelled to Qatar in the hope of securing a better livelihood. (amnesty.org)
Qatar has come under pressure over the plight of the country's migrant workers, who make up 90 per cent of Qatar's population. (cnn.com)

In the domestic field many, often female, migrant workers are subject to physically demeaning cleaning jobs that involve harsh chemical cleaners that have adverse health effects. (wikipedia.org)
Also, almost all the interviewees had suffered violence or psychological and emotional harassment at work, and during this global health crisis, female migrant workers need even more protection with respect to their jobs. (fes.de)
If Garmin cannot guarantee the protection of pregnant migrant workers, this means treatment for female migrant workers at small and medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan must be even less fair. (corpwatch.org)

The climate crisis will disproportionately affect migrant workers because of the intensive outdoor nature of their work and the lack of access they have to social resources. (wikipedia.org)
Those vulnerabilities, in turn, affect migrant workers like Pascual and her family, U.S. citizens of Mexican descent who, along with the summer Rantoul tradition, pass along a legacy of poverty. (chicagotribune.com)

The practice, to protect migrant workers' legitimate rights, will be expanded to all sectors in the future. (chinadaily.com.cn)
While sharing information, continuing trading activities and setting up Asean Covid-19 funds to purchase medical supplies have been prioritised, concrete steps to protect migrant workers remain to be seen. (bangkokpost.com)

Employing illegal migrants: right to work fines more. (personneltoday.com)

The research study, to be launched on 9 June 2017 in celebration of the Filipino Migrant Worker's Day, contributes to the goals of the FAIR project by providing evidence on the culture and practice of fair recruitment in the Philippines. (ilo.org)
DOHA, QATAR - JANUARY 09: Workers are seen during a tour at the construction site of the Al Bayt Stadium and the workers accommodation on January 9, 2017 in Doha, Qatar. (amnesty.org)
In 2017, the government started to introduce promising legal reforms to improve the working and living conditions, including introducing a law for domestic workers and legislation to protect workers from heat stress, setting up new labour courts and putting in place initiatives to compensate those who suffered abuses such as wage theft. (amnesty.org)

Meanwhile, the Asean Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Worker as the only regional agreement is not yet legally binding. (bangkokpost.com)

Human Rights Watch and Lebanese human rights organizations routinely document credible reports of abuses against migrant domestic workers, including non-payment of wages, forced confinement, refusal to provide time off, and verbal and physical abuse. (hrw.org)
Some migrant workers are made to work extremely long hours and are denied rest days, under the threat of having their wages cut. (amnesty.org)
Again in 1996, migrant workers held a sit-in protest at the cathedral, calling for guarantee of workplace accident compensation and the payment of back-wages. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The activities of this union branch, which included campaigns for improvements in the wages and working conditions of trainees and migrants working under the Employment Permit System (EPS), culminated in a year-long sit-in protest at the cathedral from Nov. 15, 2004, to Nov. 28, 2004, calling for fundamental revision of the law on migrant workers and an end to crackdown and deportation of undocumented migrants. (koreatimes.co.kr)
McDonald's workers face poverty wages, insecure hours and abuse at work. (waronwant.org)
Each of these workers enjoys other benefits, including high wages and access to social security funds, according to the labour laws of their host country. (thestar.com.my)

Organizers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been set a tight deadline by FIFA to explain how conditions are improving for migrant workers on the various building projects associated with the hosting of football's showpiece competition. (cnn.com)
SASK, the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland, in cooperation with the BWI-affiliated Finnish Construction Trade Union (Rakennusliitto) launched a campaign to promote migrant workers' rights in Qatar leading to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. (bwint.org)
FIFPRO and Building and Woodworkers' International (BWI) have signed a cooperation agreement that will give professional footballers concerned about human rights a platform to support the rights of vulnerable workers before, during and after the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. (bwint.org)
With 16 months to go before Qatar hosts the 2022 World Cup, BWI will hold a press conference on 15 July to publicly release its 2021 Progress Report on the collective journey of migrant workers, global unions and other actors and stakeholders in their quest for the recognition and fulfillment of human and labour rights in Qatar. (bwint.org)
But nowhere between the crescendoing fanfare about 2022 World Cup and the insistent calls for the games to be moved to host country that did not sacrifice the lives of migrant workers to the construction of sports venues is the story that I encountered during my research on working conditions in Qatar. (princeton.edu)

Asean estimates that 60% of migrant workers are employed in informal industries without social protections, such as unemployment support, retirement funds, accidental coverage, sufficient paid-leave and family care. (bangkokpost.com)
Covid-19 has exposed migrant workers to the double whammy of deficiencies in social protections and future uncertainties in a time of crisis. (bangkokpost.com)
Given these challenges, the Covid-19 crisis should inspire us to develop better ways to improve migrant workers' social protections. (bangkokpost.com)
Lebanon has become an outlier on this issue as most of the major countries of destination for migrant domestic workers in the Middle East have instituted labor protections. (hrw.org)
Human Rights Watch has called on candidates for Lebanon's May parliamentary elections to commit to extending labor law protections to domestic workers, introducing additional protections to monitor working conditions and investigate abuses, and reforming the kafala system so that workers' visas are no longer tied to individual sponsors and they can terminate employment without the consent of sponsors. (hrw.org)
Despite this, FIFA granted the multi-billion-dollar tournament to Qatar without imposing on it any conditions to ensure labour protections for migrant workers, despite the foreseeable risk to their human rights. (amnesty.org)
Worker advocates worry about dirty living conditions, long days in the heat and the potential for abuse in a sector not covered by some basic labor protections. (chicagotribune.com)
After I expressed concerns that the Move Forward Party would repatriate Cambodian and Laos migrant workers, the party informed us that not only would it not deport the workers, it proposes to facilitate improved social protections for them," he said. (thestar.com.my)
We call on the Lebanese authorities to end the kafala system and extend labour protections to migrant domestic workers. (change.org)

Under persistent pressure, Qatar and its World Cup organizing bodies did gradually go some way to reforming the kafala system and better protecting migrant workers. (amnesty.org)
All migrant domestic workers are excluded from the Lebanese Labour Law and are governed instead by the kafala system, which ties the legal residency of the worker to the contractual relationship with the employer. (change.org)

According to the Organisation for Migration (IOM), 2021 saw 281 million international migrant workers. (thestar.com.my)
Previous migration statistics from the Home Office this year include the finding that two-thirds of the UK's seasonal worker visa holders issued in 2021 went to Ukrainian workers , raising questions about the potential impact of conflict in Ukraine on recruitment to British farms. (personneltoday.com)
After Indian nationals, Ukrainians were the second most common nationality among people granted UK work visas in 2021, almost exclusively as a result of the seasonal worker visa. (personneltoday.com)
BWI holds a press conference on 15 July and releases its 2021 Progress Report on the collective journey of migrant workers, global unions and other actors and stakeholders in their quest for the recognition and fulfillment of human and labour rights in Qatar. (bwint.org)

The International Labour Organization estimated in 2019 that there were 169 million international migrants worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
Berlin) - Russian police rounded up and arbitrarily detained scores of Central Asian migrant workers, beating many of them, in a series of raids in mid-December 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
From 2007 to December 2019, the labour department registered 21,88,623 construction workers and, in the same period, disbursed only Rs 495 cr in benefits to workers - the highest of which was in Bengaluru (Rs 43 cr). (deccanherald.com)
We draw on a multi-sited transnational ethnography of Uzbek migrant workers between Uzbekistan, Moscow and Istanbul that we conducted between 2014 and 2020, including six months of ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul's Fatih district between January 2019 and August 2020. (lu.se)

Tulia Roqara, centre, at a meeting in her caravan with other workers from Vanuatu. (smh.com.au)
Centre for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) programme officer Dy The Hoya said on June 8 that the suggestion that the Move Forward Party has a policy to repatriate migrant workers from neighbouring countries was false, as the winning party has no such policy. (thestar.com.my)
We have requested them to stay back as the Centre has restricted movement of migrants across borders to contain the spread of COVID-19. (thehindu.com)
Annette Creek runs the Nhill Learning Centre and said her team had two bilingual workers who were working 'around the clock' to help migrants apply for government support. (abc.net.au)
If the employer doesn't meet the legal obligations, the worker doesn't have the option of going somewhere else to work, and is afraid of complaining because he or she could be fired and would be left without papers," said Victoria Gavito, legal affairs director for the non-governmental Centre for Migrant Rights (CDM), in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas. (ipsnews.net)

For many years, Amnesty International has documented and exposed the labour abuse and exploitation of low-paid migrant workers in the country. (amnesty.org)
Amnesty International alone has documented cases involving thousands of workers who have not been paid their salary and benefits, or have been underpaid, for months and even years at a time. (amnesty.org)
Concerns over the welfare of migrant workers in Qatar was highlighted by an Amnesty International report last year, which reported on widespread abuse. (cnn.com)
While Qatar acknowledges the deaths of a few dozen workers, organizations like Amnesty International estimate the actual number is likely to be in the thousands. (trendwatching.com)

The lockdown measures imposed by Asean member states during the Covid-19 pandemic have disrupted migrant workers' mobility in the region. (bangkokpost.com)
Migrant workers are crucial to the Asean economy. (bangkokpost.com)
But Asean has always been committed to advancing governing mechanisms on migrant workers. (bangkokpost.com)
Hun Sen noted that cooperation on concerning immigrant workers is protected by the Asean framework. (thestar.com.my)
In Asean, nearly 25 million workers are working in a foreign country. (thestar.com.my)

A migrant worker takes a break from work at a timber-processing plant in Chita earlier this month (ITAR-TASS) November 20, 2006 -- The deputy director of Russia's Federal Migration Service, Vyacheslav Postavnin, today defended the recent government crackdown on migrant laborers. (rferl.org)
They demanded that Bangladesh complies with provisions from the UN Convention from 1990 and asked the government to ratify the ILO Convention No. 97 on Migration for Employment (Revised), 1949 and the ILO Convention No. 143 on Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975. (ilo.org)
The UN Network on Migration calls for protection and equality of treatment for all migrants, including migrant workers. (ilo.org)
The publication sheds light on these women's journeys, both migration and professional, highlighting the violence and harassment that women, in general, and migrant women, in particular, endure. (fes.de)
Across Europe, this is often performed by migrant workers, some of whom deliberately migrate for work (including through government run schemes), and others who find their way into the sector following migration. (ethicaltrade.org)
It aims to increase access to functional grievance mechanisms for vulnerable workers within the agriculture supply chains of UK businesses in both countries, and raise awareness of risks to migrant workers ahead of migration. (ethicaltrade.org)
The network will provide local organisations with a platform to share information and learning with each other and heighten awareness among to-be migrants about the dangers of, and alternatives to, irregular migration and their labour rights once at work. (ethicaltrade.org)
Some 210,396 work visas were granted last year, of which 137,507 were for skilled workers and 48,345 for temporary workers, according to analysis of the figures by the Migration Observatory. (personneltoday.com)
Campaign group for lower immigration Migration Watch UK, based in the right-wing think-tank hotspot of Tufton Street, London, said the growth in non-EU migrants under post-Brexit immigration rules contradicted pledges by the government to reduce the number of people coming to the UK. (personneltoday.com)
These processes will be illustrated through the comparative study of the Russian and Turkish migration regimes, specifically focusing on the case of Uzbek migrant workers and their patterns of residence, incorporation into the labour market, gendered experiences of migration, and experiences of agency and capacity to navigate an opaque legal regime. (lu.se)
Impact of rural-urban migration on migrant fertility in Senegal / Barbara J. McKinney. (who.int)

Soon after The Sunday Age's report, the federal government suspended Agri Labour from bringing new workers to Australia under its Seasonal Worker Program. (smh.com.au)
Mr Laundy encouraged anyone with concerns around the Seasonal Worker Program to contact the Department of Jobs and Small Business. (smh.com.au)
Both critics on the left and right are reluctant to use Canada's seasonal worker program as a model for the United States guest workers program. (kpbs.org)
MEXICO CITY, Oct 9 2010 (IPS) - Mexican Alberto Rivero joined the ranks of seasonal workers in the United States in 2005, and for the last three years he has had to pay all the expenses associated with his visa, transportation and housing, although the law states that these are the responsibility of his U.S. employer. (ipsnews.net)
In his field research, González surveyed 867 households in the municipality of El Naranjo, in San Luis Potosí state, and found 24 people who were seasonal workers in the United States. (ipsnews.net)
ProDESC is advising two groups of seasonal workers who suffered abuses in Louisiana. (ipsnews.net)
Enforce the provisions of the TFWP and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) to ensure that workers are paid at least as much as the provincial seasonal average wage rate. (globenewswire.com)
As Canada's representative and advocate for food workers, UFCW Canada works closely with the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) in operating a national, on-the-ground support network of volunteers and staff who offer information, training, and support services to migrant, temporary foreign, and seasonal agricultural workers across the country. (globenewswire.com)
Almost 20,000 seasonal worker visas were granted to Ukrainian nationals, 67% of the total. (personneltoday.com)
These recommendations are presented to assist health-care providers serving migrant and seasonal farm workers. (cdc.gov)
The plan gives top priority to implementation of strategies to prevent TB in identifiable high-incidence population groups, including migrant and seasonal farm workers. (cdc.gov)
In this document, a 'migrant farm worker' is defined as a laborer whose principal employment is in agriculture on a seasonal basis and who establishes for the purposes of such employment a temporary abode. (cdc.gov)
The term 'seasonal farm worker' means a person whose principal employment is in agriculture on a seasonal basis, but who does not move from area to area for work. (cdc.gov)
These recommendations are intended for health-care providers serving migrant and seasonal farm workers -- providers who can contribute to the elimination of TB in this population through improved screening, prevention, and control activities. (cdc.gov)
The recommendations are also directed to health departments because of their important role in assisting migrant health-care providers in the prevention and control of TB among migrant and seasonal farm workers. (cdc.gov)
Information provided by the Office of Migrant Health, DHHS, indicates that there are an estimated 4.2 million migrant and seasonal farm workers in the United States. (cdc.gov)
Migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families often face linguistic, cultural, financial, immigration, educational, and other barriers that also make it difficult for them to obtain needed health-care services. (cdc.gov)
Proportionate mortality among US migrant and seasonal farm workers in twenty-four states. (cdc.gov)
Background: US migrant and seasonal farm workers may be exposed to potentially carcinogenic pesticides and other agents. (cdc.gov)

Because making the public relate to the normative discourse on fair and ethical remains to be a challenge, the FAIR project will also engage with the team and cast behind the movie Sunday Beauty Queen, a film documentary on the plight of the Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong. (ilo.org)
Beirut) - Lebanon 's general prosecutor should ensure an adequate investigation into allegations that a migrant domestic worker suffered months of abuse before jumping from a balcony and injuring herself, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
All first-time MDWs are required to attend the migrant domestic worker interview twice in their first year of employment. (mom.gov.sg)

The human rights watchgroup expressed concern with the amplification of "discriminatory and xenophobic practices" towards migrant workers in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic. (thestar.com.my)

Fuyang, a city in Anhui Province that is famous for its large number out-bound migrant laborers, saw 134,600 people leave for bigger cities during the three days between February 6 and February 8, an increase of 15 percent from a year earlier. (china.org.cn)
The city will need more and more such migrant laborers to work on its labor-intensive jobs in the following 10 to 20 years," said Yang. (china.org.cn)

It should have been no secret to anyone that migrant workers in Qatar faced systemic labour abuses and exploitation and that their toil would be essential for the World Cup to take place there. (amnesty.org)
Since 2010, thousands of migrant workers have died suddenly and unexpectedly in Qatar , despite undergoing medical tests before travelling to the country. (amnesty.org)
Blankspot , a Swedish platform for investigative journalism, is lifting those workers out of statistic anonymity in its Cards of Qatar campaign. (trendwatching.com)
Following the familiar design of collectible player cards, each shares the face and story of a migrant worker who went off to work in Qatar and never came home to their family in Nepal, Bangladesh or India. (trendwatching.com)
BWI's Belgian trade union affiliates on 7 June met with the Royal Belgian Football Association (URBSFA) in Brussels to discuss ways on how the latter can help in promoting migrant workers' rights and improving their working and living conditions, especially those working in Qatar. (bwint.org)
They have made it clear that no amount of sportwashing can erase the thousands of worker death and injuries produced by an employment system-called kafala-that for most of the decade between the 2010 ceremony in Zurich when Qatar was awarded hosting rights and the dramatic sound and light show on Doha's corniche when the countdown clock was unveiled this past November enforced practices that many compared to slavery. (princeton.edu)
What I found was a story with far more dimension that the flat and indistinguishable portrayals of workers-anonymous, oppressed, racialized, and clad in ubiquitous work overalls-in much of the press on Qatar as well as in some human rights accounts. (princeton.edu)
Seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 among the migrant workers in Qatar. (bvsalud.org)
This study investigated HSV-1 and HSV-2 seroprevalences and associations among craft and manual workers (CMWs) in Qatar who constitute 60% of Qatar 's population . (bvsalud.org)

A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. (wikipedia.org)
Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. (wikipedia.org)
Migrant workers who work outside their home country are also called foreign workers. (wikipedia.org)
They may also be called expatriates or guest workers, especially when they have been sent for or invited to work in the host country before leaving the home country. (wikipedia.org)
All of these workers are exposed to fast paces, and repetitive motions at work which can easily lead to injury. (wikipedia.org)
If these workers do get injured or sick from work, they are left to navigate the American healthcare system without insurance and with a language barrier. (wikipedia.org)
These workers are already exposed to long work days in extreme conditions. (wikipedia.org)
The nature of agricultural work, industrial, and construction work puts these migrant workers at higher rates of heat stroke, sun exposure, and injuries caused by storm conditions. (wikipedia.org)
As a result, the government of Singapore had to step up to make accommodation arrangements for the Malaysian workers, ensuring that they could continue work as usual in the city-state. (bangkokpost.com)
The cabinet this week will consider on the issuance of temporary work permits or pink cards as an emergency measure to include undocumented workers in the system. (bangkokpost.com)
After the outbreak was reported on Dec 19, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Myanmar embassy rushed to Samut Sakhon the following day to work out a plan of action to quell public panic and guarantee workers' livelihoods. (bangkokpost.com)
The five workers making the claim say they were underpaid up to $20,000 each for just four months work. (smh.com.au)
We applaud the work done by local governments for migrant workers, who have been in a disadvantaged position in their negotiations with bosses. (china.org.cn)
Workers claimed their passports have been confiscated, their movements have been restricted and they've been forced to work up to 18 hours a day and live in overcrowded, substandard accommodation. (nzherald.co.nz)
She is among the hundreds of migrant workers who travel to the area for corn detasseling season, a short burst of intense work critical in the production of the nation's largest cash crop. (chicagotribune.com)
When work on farm en ds or slows down in off-season, many farmers head to cities to earn some money. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Members of the Alliance of Migrant Workers in Korea stage a rally to demand work permission in Seoul, Sunday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Through the work of JMCK, the situation of Korea's migrant workers became widely known in Korean civil society. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Sources close to Gandhi said he had an impromptu hour-long meeting with a group of 20 migrants, including women and children, walking from their work site near Ambala to their village near Jhansi. (rediff.com)
Although military privatization in Iraq and Afghanistan has received extensive coverage, the stereotype of the wartime contractor as a gun-toting white American working for Blackwater is in some ways misleading: The overwhelming majority of the military's contractor work force in the Middle East consists of local workers or " Third Country Nationals " (TCNs) from India, Uganda and dozens of other countries. (merip.org)
Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president Pav Sina suggested that the Cambodian government create more job opportunities for Cambodians rather than see its people forced to leave their homeland to work overseas. (thestar.com.my)
Of course, if the Thai authorities sent the migrant workers home, it would be very challenging, because we would be unable to provide them with immediate work," he said. (thestar.com.my)
CDE is a non-governmental organisation set up by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to help both local and migrant domestic workers address work-related challenges that they may face. (mom.gov.sg)
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) is one of Canada's largest trade unions, representing more than 250,000 people across the country, and 1.3 million internationally, who work in every aspect of the food chain, health care, security, and many other key economic sectors. (globenewswire.com)
Workers can find themselves in debt, under-paid, working in poor conditions and reliant on visa sponsors, limiting their ability to freely find new work. (ethicaltrade.org)
Steps will also be taken to better understand how the UK's public and private sectors can work to address systemic issues affecting workers' rights in the sector by identifying lessons learned through preliminary research, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the pilot . (ethicaltrade.org)
There are more people coming in on skilled work visas in particular, where numbers are mostly driven by overseas health workers. (personneltoday.com)

Ali was convicted of luring 15 Fijian workers into New Zealand and then exploiting them by withholding pay, forcing them to live in overcrowded conditions and threatening them with deportation if they complained. (nzherald.co.nz)
Of the estimated 2.5 million farmworkers in the U.S., between 50 and 70 percent are undocumented, and fear of deportation keeps workers from complaining, said Bruce Goldstein, president of Farmworker Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group. (chicagotribune.com)
Its basic goals are to 1) stop the crackdown and deportation of migrant workers, 2) achieve legalization of all undocumented workers, 3) achieve protection of the labor rights for migrant workers, 4) achieve a fundamental revision of the law concerning migrant workers. (koreatimes.co.kr)

Wage theft is one of the most common abuses faced by migrant workers. (amnesty.org)

There are many opportunities to be explored along with the Covid-19 responses, such as expanding migrant workers' healthcare access and utilising information and communications technology to improve transparency in the recruitment process. (bangkokpost.com)
This report provides a global overview of the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers - with a focus on recruitment - drawing on rapid assessments conducted by the ILO in early-mid 2020. (ilo.org)
The report found some workers had been charged recruitment fees of up to $20,000 and then significantly underpaid upon arrival into New Zealand. (nzherald.co.nz)
Having often taken out high-interest loans to pay costly and illegal recruitment fees , such delays can be devastating for workers, particularly when they are supporting not only themselves but families in their home countries. (amnesty.org)
Posing as subcontractors of US corporations, the journalists caught a labor recruiter on tape offering them bribes to hire his workers - bribes paid for out of the thousands of dollars each worker must pay as a "recruitment fee" for the job opportunity. (merip.org)
Migrant workers on US bases frequently report taking on enormous debts to cover recruitment fees, which then require months (if not years) to pay off. (merip.org)

Nearly 300 foreign and Korean workers denounced the government's crackdown aimed at deporting foreign workers who had overstayed their visas. (koreatimes.co.kr)
In writing the book, we tried to think about how the shift in the Mexican government's policy toward their emigrant workers has been carried out in practice," said Gleeson, the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History. (cornell.edu)
Specifically, UFCW is asking the government to implement recommendations put forward by workers enrolled in the TFWP during the government's Primary Agriculture Review of the TFWP, at which UFCW was a leading voice as Canada's foremost advocate for agricultural workers. (globenewswire.com)

This means that the country has more migrant than urban workers, and that they constitute the main Chinese industrial workforce. (chinadaily.com.cn)
He was quick to admit that the recent infections did not come from the migrant workers residing in the country but rather from the recent group of foreign workers smuggled across the Thai border. (bangkokpost.com)
The consultation was geared to draw more experience based language needs of the workers when they are in a country of destination. (ilo.org)
Railway stations in big cities around the country are filled these days with migrants from rural areas moving to cities in search of a better life. (china.org.cn)
The social security scheme of the country is including migrant workers and self-employed persons from today onward. (nepalnews.com)
The recruiters have set up businesses in Mexico to attract workers from communities across the country. (ipsnews.net)
Provide a transparent and impartial process for workers to appeal any decision to repatriate them to their home country. (globenewswire.com)
Ensure that workers are provided with a free medical exam before they return to their home country to confirm they are healthy and free from workplace illnesses or injuries. (globenewswire.com)
My decision to study this topic was also influenced by the current politics in India, the migrant worker distress in the country post the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, and the sustainable development concerns in India. (lu.se)

The emergency food pantry stocks up for the influx of migrants who come each summer for corn detasseling, most of them from South Florida and South Texas, Kulczycki said. (chicagotribune.com)
Most recently, following a September 2015 decision of the Regional Committee for Europe, WHO and the Ministry of Health of Italy gathered 50 Member States from the African, European and the Eastern Mediterranean regions in Rome in late November for a high-level meeting on migrant and refugee health to discuss the public health aspects of the recent influx of migrants and refugees to European countries. (who.int)

Today, no labourer is able to draw the cess money to which they are entitled, that is the biggest problem," he said and added that the 1996 Building and Other Construction Workers Act (BOCW) may need to be revisited to be made more effective. (deccanherald.com)

Widespread migrant exploitation has been uncovered in New Zealand with a new report stating workers have been unpaid, denied toilet breaks and subjected to threats. (nzherald.co.nz)
and f) widespread tuberculin test screening for workers and families with preventive therapy prescribed, as appropriate. (cdc.gov)

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that Thailand has responded to Cambodia's concerns that the Move Forward Party might repatriate Cambodian and Laos migrant workers in Thailand. (thestar.com.my)

A new book coauthored by ILR School Professor Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada analyzes how labor unions, worker centers, legal aid groups and other immigrant advocates put tactical pressure on government bureaucracies to holistically defend migrant rights. (cornell.edu)
Approximately 500,000 (12%) are served by federally supported migrant health centers (2). (cdc.gov)

Kumar promised to tackle weaknesses in the implementation of (BOCW), saying that the appointment of a dedicated joint labour commissioner in the construction workers welfare board could help addresses the issue. (deccanherald.com)
When N P Swamy, President of the Karnataka State Construction Workers Central Union, blamed illiteracy for the workers' ignorance about accessing benefits, Kumar revealed plans to launch a helpline for construction workers to access information and report grievances. (deccanherald.com)
Mahesh Kumar, a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh who along with 14 of his family members was sitting at the footpath, narrated his tale of woe to the former Congress chief. (rediff.com)

Farm workers are approximately six times more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) than the general population of employed adults. (cdc.gov)

An estimated 14 million foreign workers live in the United States, which draws most of its immigrants from Mexico, including 4 or 5 million undocumented workers. (wikipedia.org)
It is estimated that around 5 million foreign workers live in Northwestern Europe, half-a-million in Japan, and 5 million in Saudi Arabia. (wikipedia.org)
There are approximately 14 million non-permanent workers in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
Today it is estimated that there are about 10.7 million undocumented migrant workers in the United States, many of which come from Mexico and other countries in Central America. (wikipedia.org)
According to official statistics, there are now 130 million migrant workers in Chinese cities, which is almost equivalent to half of the United States' population. (chinadaily.com.cn)
He said an estimated 10 million to 12 million migrants are now in Russia -- 90 percent of them illegally. (rferl.org)
Migrant farm workers from Vanuatu have launched a landmark $10 million legal claim against their former Australian labour hire employer for gross underpayment and mistreatment. (smh.com.au)
Currently, there are about 3 million migrant workers in Shanghai. (china.org.cn)
California employs about one million farm workers. (kpbs.org)
He added that in Asia, there were 115 million migrant workers. (thestar.com.my)
With over 128 million migrants worldwide , these risks occur on a huge scale. (ethicaltrade.org)
The recent increase in the displacement of populations around the world is unprecedented and has resulted in an estimated 60 million migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons. (who.int)

Labor and immigrant advocacy groups want nothing less than permanent employment or citizenship for migrant workers. (kpbs.org)
Gleeson and Bada , conclude the potential for a functional immigrant worker rights regime relies on a portable, universal system of justice and human rights, a robust civil society on both sides of the border, and willing and proactive local labor agencies. (cornell.edu)
The programme's rules stipulate that the employer must cover all expenses of the immigrant worker. (ipsnews.net)

In this Dec 20 file photo, 2,000 Myanmar migrant workers wait in front of a dormitory near the Thai Union Market in Samut Sakhon as health officials conduct Covid-19 tests. (bangkokpost.com)
Less than 2,000 are H2A workers. (kpbs.org)
According to the approved procedural guideline, the migrant workers or self-employed persons living abroad could participate in the facility by depositing at least 21.33 percent of basic remuneration or minimum Rs 2,000 monthly and its three-fold in maximum. (nepalnews.com)
The western Victorian town of Nhill has been used as a model for how regional and rural towns can resettle migrants, with about 10 per cent of its 2,000-strong population ethnic Karen. (abc.net.au)

We must increase the health welfare, the safety, the financial welfare of these workers. (deccanherald.com)
When migrant workers first started arriving in Rantoul in the early 1990s, "the rumors were that there were Gypsies roaming in the community," said Andy Kulczycki, executive director of the Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County, which offers basic welfare services. (chicagotribune.com)
The BWI-affiliated Thamizhaga Kattida Thozhilalargal Madhiya Sangam (TKTMS) and the state-level Migrant Workers Rights Coalition (MWRC) urged the Non-Resident Tamils' (NRT) Welfare Department to constitute the long-delayed NRT Board as mandated by the NRT Act of 2011 to protect the rights of Tamil migrant workers. (bwint.org)

Limited data exists on herpes simplex virus type 1 ( HSV-1 ) and type 2 ( HSV-2 ) infections in migrant populations . (bvsalud.org)
There are many health challenges associated with today's large migrant and refugee populations. (who.int)
The health needs of migrant and refugee populations may differ significantly from those of the populations of the recipient countries. (who.int)

In the agricultural field, the workers spend long days doing intense physical labor often in extreme weather conditions such as storms and heat. (wikipedia.org)
These workers often live in unsafe living conditions that are overcrowded and often unsanitary. (wikipedia.org)
The film documents the working conditions of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong. (ilo.org)
Random interviews in November with some migrant workers in Mahachai showed that little attention is given to their general working conditions. (bangkokpost.com)
Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) it aims to ensure protection and decent employment conditions for Bangladeshi migrant workers. (ilo.org)
The Plan of action includes advocacy and trade union capacity-building, as well as monitoring of employment conditions and support to Bangladeshi migrant workers, and forging partnership with counterpart trade unions in selected countries of destination. (ilo.org)
In May, The Sunday Age revealed that 50 workers from Vanuatu had worked in shocking conditions on a farm near Shepparton, and had earned as little as $8 an hour. (smh.com.au)
The workers are being backed by the National Union of Workers, which is running a campaign to improve working conditions in the almost entirely non-union farm sector. (smh.com.au)
The ITUC also point to the high number of worker deaths and the conditions that many find themselves in. (cnn.com)
Workers are coming together in the McStrike to build power in numbers and win better working conditions, including through bold strike action. (waronwant.org)
The conditions in the main countries of origin show no signs of improvement, indicating that large-scale flows of migrants and refugees are likely to continue for the foreseeable future. (who.int)
Migrants by necessity : a report on the living conditions of forestry workers in the SIDA supported Bai Bang Programme / by Rita Liljeström, Adam Fforde and Bo Ohlsson. (who.int)

The composition of the farm labor force, which toils largely out of public view, gives workers little leverage to challenge poor treatment, worker advocates say. (chicagotribune.com)
The United States and Canada have similar temporary farm workers programs. (kpbs.org)
A national produce grower is checking the temperatures of its farm workers, and health services and community groups are busy translating public health messaging around the coronavirus into dozens of languages. (abc.net.au)
He also said much of the public health messaging around social distancing was not relatable for people in group accommodation, which includes most foreign farm workers. (abc.net.au)
Immediately publish the statistics and criteria used by the government to determine the yearly wage rates for migrant farm workers enrolled in the TFWP. (globenewswire.com)
Drug-resistant TB is an important consideration since it requires altered treatment regimes and because higher rates of resistance have been found in ethnic and social groups comprising much of the migrant farm worker-force. (cdc.gov)
Continuity of medical care is difficult for migrant farm workers because they move often. (cdc.gov)
Farm worker heat-related fatality - Oregon. (cdc.gov)
Family dairy farm worker dies when tractor rolls down embankment. (cdc.gov)
Farm worker died when unsupported combine head fell onto him during repair activities in a bean field. (cdc.gov)
Dairy farm worker mauled by either a 2-year-old bull or a dairy cow. (cdc.gov)
Farm worker electrocuted while pressure-washing interior of swine barn. (cdc.gov)
Methods: We examined the proportionate mortality of 26,148 subjects (14,631 white men (WM),7,299 nonwhite men (NM), 1,081 white women (WW), and 3,137 nonwhite women (NW)) who were identified as farm workers on death certificates from 24 US states during 1984-1993. (cdc.gov)
1990. Environmental health communication and the migrant farm worker. (cdc.gov)

Migrant workers are leaving their hometowns earlier and earlier these years. (china.org.cn)

Although bilateral initiatives and MOUs on protecting rights of migrants workers exist, there is still an absence of coordinative social protection, making migrant workers vulnerable to discrimination in the laws and practices of both countries of origin and destination. (bangkokpost.com)
The exploitation outlined by the migrant workers ranged from shady employment practices to more serious allegations, including physical and sexual abuse. (nzherald.co.nz)

The raids, which were carried out in at least six regions in Russia, involved detentions of migrant workers without legal basis, including some Russian citizens of non-Russian ethnicity. (hrw.org)

The World Bank highlights that migrant workers contribute significantly to GDP in countries receiving remittances: 10% of GDP in the Philippines, 7% in Vietnam and 5% in Myanmar. (bangkokpost.com)
This study - conducted from mid-October to December 2020 - is a follow-up to the initial assessment and focuses on migrant workers in countries of destination. (ilo.org)
All workers but one who was a care-giver, worked as domestic workers in the countries of destination. (ilo.org)
The workers, who showed working knowledge of the language, were able to identify the differences in vocabulary that is taught in some of the language trainings and vocabulary that is actually used in the countries they worked in. (ilo.org)
Establishing Language Labs at the Technical Training Centres," sub-project will develop teaching and learning material for Arabic and English language training to the workers going to the Middle-east and English speaking destination countries. (ilo.org)
According to Gleeson, who is also a professor at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, "sending states," countries from which immigrants are coming, have historically been either hands-off or actively detrimental toward the rights of their migrant workers, in part because labor advocacy can sometimes conflict with the goals of exporting migrant workers. (cornell.edu)
The US prefers to keep prisoners and workers in a legally ambiguous space and status, disconnected from the public, whether in the US, the countries where they find themselves or their homelands. (merip.org)
The Thai party confirmed that none of their policies involved the repatriation of workers from neighbouring countries. (thestar.com.my)
Sex and age distribution of migrant workers from four Southeast Asian countries. (cdc.gov)
Migrants leave their countries of origin seeking better access to social services, including health and education, and employment opportunities. (who.int)

Spokesperson Panthi said a worker going abroad for employment would be entitled to receive a 10 percent discount while depositing contributions worth amounting to a six-month salary. (nepalnews.com)
requires the employer to pay the full salary at the end of each month with receipts of payment signed by both parties, to purchase health insurance for the worker and to allow her to receive calls and to cover the cost of one phone call to her parents per month. (change.org)

EngageMedia conducted two trainings for migrant workers in Indonesia. (engagemedia.org)

To that end, they have put together the "Manual of Binational Justice," providing a legal framework for the defence of migrant workers whether in Mexico or the U.S. (ipsnews.net)
Panellists discussed the gaps and challenges in the practical implementation of the existing legal framework for migrant victims of labour exploitation and violence to be able to claim their rights, and discussed the opportunities presented by the new legislature for action. (europa.eu)

An overall social security system will play an important role in bolstering China's economic development, keeping social stability and protecting workers' rights," said Zhu. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Talks continue on what social benefits should be covered by law, as well as how to handle undocumented migrant workers effectively and to what extend support for dependents should be provided. (bangkokpost.com)
He said that Delhi Congress arranged 8-10 vehicles to carry the migrant workers following the social distancing norms. (rediff.com)
In the presence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', the Social Security Fund is hosting a programme today to initiate the task of including migrant workers in the contributions-based social security scheme. (nepalnews.com)
In this connection, the Fund had already approved procedural guidelines to enroll migrant workers, informal sector employees and self-employed persons in the social security scheme. (nepalnews.com)
Though informal sector workers have been receiving benefits from the social security plan since three years back, migrant workers and self-employed persons living abroad were being deprived of the service. (nepalnews.com)
The Non-Resident Nepali Association has also long been advocating for including migrant workers in the social security scheme. (nepalnews.com)
The Move Forward Party said in a June 7 statement that they recognised the important contribution made by the migrant workforce to the economic and social development of Thailand. (thestar.com.my)
The health of many migrants and refugees is at risk due to abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, barriers to accessing health and social services, and a lack of continuity of care. (who.int)

The jobs available to undocumented migrant workers in America are often in the domestic, industrial and agricultural field. (wikipedia.org)
In 1943, the United States instituted the H2 visas for foreign workers, and in the 1980s established the categories H2A for agricultural workers and H2B for other jobs, like gardening, construction and hotel housekeeping services. (ipsnews.net)
Provide migrant agricultural workers with a pathway to permanent residency in every province under the provincial nominee program. (globenewswire.com)
For many years, human rights abuse has been identified in European agricultural supply chains - from Italian tomatoes to Spanish fruits and vegetables - these risks are high and evident, particularly to migrant workers. (ethicaltrade.org)
Contract agricultural worker died after being engulfed by tons of nuts - California. (cdc.gov)

Additionally migrant workers are one of the most vulnerable groups in regards to the impending climate crisis. (wikipedia.org)

Tulia Roqara, one of five workers that has brought the case, told The Sunday Age from Vanuatu that they want 'justice' and to be paid back money owed to them. (smh.com.au)
But Chris Ramshroop of Justice for Migrant Workers criticized the report. (cbc.ca)
Mexico's Federal Labour Act establishes that the companies have to cover what the worker spends on paperwork and register the hiring contract with the Conciliation and Arbitration Council, the entity responsible for overseeing labour justice. (ipsnews.net)

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