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Around a quarter of responding female foreign trainees in Japan say they were told to quit their job and return to their home country if they become pregnant, a survey by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan says.

MELAKA: A labour rights activist is making a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to quickly resolve the issue of foreign worker recruitment.

A group of Vietnamese technical interns whose former employer failed to pay them a total of 27 million yen ($194,000) for overtime expose the illegally long hours they were made to work and call for the money to be handed over at a press conference.

IPOH: The police are investigating a report lodged by a foreign worker who claimed his friend’s gold jewellery worth over RM14,000 was stolen after four civil servants raided his "rumah kongsi" in Pantai Remis, says Comm Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri.

Only half (48%) of managers surveyed from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are confident that applying learning to work fosters a learning culture, as compared to most managers (71%) from larger companies SME employees are twice as likely (30%) to say that learning and development is not important to their organisation as compared to non-SME employees (15%) Two...

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of RM70 million is allocated to improve the palm oil industry’s sustainability, including encouraging the recycling of palm waste material, Minister of Finance Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz said.

To blame Harapan is a cowardly move and does not hold water.

The Department of Labor certified around 317,000 temporary jobs in fiscal year 2021 under the H-2A visa program, more than six times the number certified in 2005.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is a government program administered by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); to allow companies to hire temporary foreign workers (TFWs) where there is a need for them in the Canadian labour force, and for foreign workers to seek employment with companies

Singapore News - After receiving up to 100 threatening text messages and phone calls, they started to have men coming to their doorstep to harass them. One family recently found themselves hounded and harassed – all because their domestic helper borrowed money from illegal... Read more at www.tnp.sg