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Environmental "Refugees"?
Time to update your lexicon! Quick, tell us again what a "refugee" is? If you've been schooled in the language of the United Nations, a refugee must meet extremely strict criteria: "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of...
Tags: refugees, climate change, migrants
Thailand: Systematic discrimination against Burmese migrants
Mr. Sawit Keawan, General Secretary of Thailand's State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC)*, today, file a complaint with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) during the 98th International Labour Conference in Switzerland. This...
Tags: Migrants
East Europe worker 'curbs' kept
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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A scheme to monitor workers coming from eight eastern EU countries is to be maintained for another two years, the Home Office has said. The Worker Registration Scheme tracks the flow of new workers was due to be scrapped this month, five years after the...
Tags: migrants, Eastern European
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR HSMP IMMIGRANTS OF THE UK
Highly Skilled Migrants of the United Kingdom have won another case against the Home Office's retrospective provision of increasing the ILR period from 4 to 5 year. In a verdict on April 6, justice Mrs Cox DBE, said: "I conclude, therefore,...
Tags: hsmp, judicial, hsmp forum ltd, amit kapadia, home office, migrants, uk, unlawful, secretary of state ilr, visa, justice Mrs Cox DBE
Christmas Cheer Can Become A Workplace Hazard
Auckland :: New Zealand | 11 months ago
Credibility The effects of overdoing alcohol at Christmas functions can impair a worker’s ability to do their jobs properly and safely, which puts them at risk of injuring themselves or their co-workers. ``We estimate about a quarter of all injury claims to ACC are...
Tags: migrants, exploitation
Migrants' work stocked supermarkets
Kettering :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Migrant workers taken into care following a human trafficking raid in Lincolnshire were harvesting vegetables for a supplier to Tesco and Waitrose, it has emerged. They had been employed by a firm called A14, which supplied labour to Emmett UK, a private...
Tags: migrants
11,000 Indian migrants swarm to UK annually
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility More than 11,000 foreign immigrants were recruited to work in Britain by six Indian information technology firms in 2006, leading to concerns about wage undercutting being raised by unions here. The home office figures, revealed by the Sunday Telegraph,...
BBC Exposes Migrant Criminal Network
A BBC undercover team recently uncovered widespread unlawful job practices, squalid housing, and a thriving trade in fake documents among immigrant communities in London. More than 40 houses packed with illegal immigrants were identified in one square...
Tags: Migrants, lack documentation, exploitation, criminals, London
Migrant criminal network exposed
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Widespread unlawful job practices, squalid housing, and a thriving trade in fake documents were uncovered. More than 40 houses packed with illegal immigrants were identified in one square mile of Southall, west London. The young, mostly male Punjabis...
Tags: migrants, london, BBC News Special, west London, Southall, illegal immigration, Britain, faked documents, indians immigration, India
SA working longer hours
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility South African workers are working longer hours -proving that the local labour market is not rigid, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdadlana said on Thursday. The number of people in bargaining councils has decreased and a Labour Force Survey showed that working...
Tags: migrants, South Africans, working longer
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