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Minimum wage row hits Filipina housemaids

Posted by jacobo 208 days ago Qatar
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DOHA: Pilipina domestics have been hot favourites of Qatari households for decades. There have occasionally been talks of exploitation of these hapless workers — like their counterparts from other countries — in Qatari as well as expatriate homes, but there have also been reports of how many of them were pampered by their employers and that some of th

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Qatar under ITUC scanner

Posted by jacobo 233 days ago Qatar
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KATHMANDU: International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) — a global umbrella of trade unions — has asked UN to inquiry about the migrant workers situation in the Qatari government construction projects. It has also submitted a formal complaint to ILO. The complaint highlights the link between the increasing number of workplace fatalities and Qatari g

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Qatar stages expo on steps to fight human trafficking

Posted by jacobo 240 days ago Qatar
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Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking (QFCHT) organised an exhibition in Vienna to introduce Qatar’s achievements in combating human trafficking.

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Qatar needs one million foreign workers for 2022 projects: ILO

Posted by jacobo 248 days ago Qatar
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DOHA: Qatar faces the challenge of recruiting almost one million foreign workers ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022, an expert from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.

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Victims file cases against ‘visa traders’

Posted by jacobo 248 days ago Qatar
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DOHA: Court cases filed by desperate foreign workers against shady companies involved in the money-spinning illegal visa trade are on the rise, says a prominent lawyer.

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Qatar: Qatari workers paid three times more than foreigners

Posted by jacobo 258 days ago Qatar
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(ANSAmed) - DOHA, OCTOBER 5 - Qatari citizens gain three times more than foreign workers who represent 90% of the Emirate's workforce.

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Recruitment agencies seek bigger role

Posted by jacobo 260 days ago Qatar
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DOHA: Manpower agencies in the country are pressing the government to make it mandatory for private companies to recruit unskilled and semi-skilled foreign workers through them to help end problems like the sale of work visas by some firms and workers running away from their sponsors.

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Qatar: abused domestic workers on the run

Posted by jacobo 283 days ago Qatar
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ANSAmed) - DOHA,SET 10- Many Qatari families on holiday in Britain have had to pack up and return to Qatar because their housemaids had fled.

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