Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Livre

Labor migration in Asia: Protection of migrant workers, support services and enhancing development benefits

Date

2005

Résumé

Three countries, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are used as case studies in this book. The book will examine legal and structural frameworks for regulating recruitment activities, licensing and supervision of agencies, monitoring of recruitment agencies, processing and documentation of workers, benchmarks for fixing minimum standards of overseas employment contracts, role of private recruitment agencies in labor migration, regulation and mechanisms for regulating recruitment of vulnerable workers, malpractice by private recruitment agencies, malpractice by employers, illegal recruitment and unlawful emigration, redress for violation of rights of migrant workers, efforts at enforcing minimum standards in Employment contracts, other mechanism t check abuses by recruitment agencies and good practices and lessons learned on regulation o recruitment.

Number of pages

1-361

Lieu de publication

Geneva, Switzerland

Éditeur

International Organization for Migration

Fichiers joints

Liens

Mots-clés

Role of recruitment agencies, malpractice of recruitment agencies and employers, contracts improvement

Secteurs économiques

Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Sales and service occupations - general, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing, Dancers et Autre

Types de contenu

Policy analysis et Initiatives de soutien

Groupes cibles

Législateurs, Sensibilisation du public, Chercheurs et ONG/groupes communautaires/réseaux de solidarité

Domaines de réglementation

Normes du travail, Assurance-emploi, Envois de fonds et programmes de co-développement et Agences de recrutement et de placement

Pertinence géographique

Philippines, Sri Lanka et Pakistan

Sphères d’activité

Économie, Droit et Gestion des ressources humaines

Langues

Anglais