Britain's Minister of State for Immigration Robert Goodwill on Wednesday proposed a levy of a 1,000 pounds (about 1,220 U.S. dollars) a year on skilled workers in the European Union employed by British companies after Brexit.
Myanmar said on Monday it had sent out safety instructions to its workers in Malaysia after attackers hacked five of them to death with swords, weeks after it barred workers from going there, partly because of security fears.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has been threatening higher taxes for U.S. companies shipping jobs overseas, but experts said there are better strategies for saving American jobs.
At least five workers have died and nearly two dozen are feared trapped in a coal mine which has collapsed in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
Pyongyang has recently brought back around 300 DPRK workers employed in Oman, a U.S.-based radio report said Thursday amid international concerns over the North's inhuman treatment of its workers overseas.
At least 1,500 garment workers in Bangladesh have been sacked after a week of protests over pay, say police.
The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labour in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015
"I've heard about a change in the law, but what the change will be I don't know," says Girijesh, an Indian electrician, during his hour-long lunch break in downtown Doha.
President-elect Donald Trump named fast-food executive Andy Puzder to head the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday, drawing criticism from labour advocates worried about his opposition to a higher minimum wage and government regulation of the workplace.
It took just five days for bins to overflow and floors to become strewn with rubbish after cleaners at Barcelona's El Prat Airport went on strike.
Nepalese migrants claimed they paid recruitment agents in Nepal to secure their jobs in Malaysia, and claimed that their passports were confiscated on arrival in the country
Twenty Fijian seasonal workers bound for Australia and New Zealand have received pre-departure training and are ready to go, the government said Friday.
Two governments agree helpers should not be compelled to undertake ‘unsafe’ jobs following death of Filipino in August, but they decline to prohibit the practice completely
Future models for immigration control into Britain from the European Union (EU) risk restricting the flow of much-needed skilled workers, which could result in a negative impact on the economy, a leading economist said Wednesday.
Police need to change tactics to encourage sex safe between prostitutes and their clients, study says
Thousands of foreign farm workers come to the UK every year. But in the wake of the UK vote on 23 June to leave the EU, they find themselves in uncertain times.
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