SAUDI ARABIA - May 19 - 'No' To Foreign Manpower.
In a meeting with the Directors of 37 labor offices, Labor Minister Dr Ghazi Al-Gosaibi urges them to give priority to Saudi jobseekers and also emphasizes the need to reduce the recruitment of foreign manpower to a minimum. Saudi Press Agency says: "The minister urged the officials to implement...

First 192 OFWs leave Lebanon; Group of rescued workers expected on Saturday Contingency plan working smoothly - DFA.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI A total of 192 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Lebanon, mostly women, are expected to arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) via Emirates Airline Lockheed II chartered plane tomorrow, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. Foreign Affairs...

Perspectives on the Bush Administration's new immigrant guestworker proposal: immigrant labor issues.
Within days of its unveiling, the Bush Administration's temporary worker proposal was labeled an "amnesty," (1) the "Wal-Mart bracero" (2) program, a "new era of indentured servants," (3) an "election-year ploy," (4) a "huge step backward," (5) a "reward" to "illegal aliens" (6) and "a classic guest worker program...

Reviving the white Australia policy: the labour movement returns to its roots.
THE CYCLE OF HISTORY, it seems, is extremely hard to escape. Recent controversy over temporary skilled worker migration to Australia shows remarkable similarities to similar controversy over a hundred years ago. In the present instance, however, it is possible that the current rhetoric is tinged with a...

Miriam seeks probe on abuse, exploitation of RP caregivers in Canada.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI Administration Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago yesterday lashed out at governments failure to secure stable working conditions for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), even as she sought an inquiry into the alleged "abusive" Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) between Canada and the Philippines. Santiago,...

Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.
INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups of agricultural guestworkers (2) again raises...

Labor's wage war.
INTRODUCTION Almost every growing sector in the bottom half of our economy--health care, child care, retail, building services, construction, and hospitality--is plagued by penurious employers who drag down working conditions for everyone. Common schemes emerge in jobs with sweatshop conditions: employers hide behind subcontractors, call their workers...

Comp world going global: rising percentage of immigrants in the workforce raises new issues for insureds and carriers, as language and legal status vex players.
Summary * As a percentage of the U.S. workforce, immigrant workers increased by 17 percent over the past three years. * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, immigrants now make up 12 percent of the active U.S. workforce, or 15.7 million workers, and are...

SAUDI ARABIA - May 2 - Small Firms Banned From Recruiting Foreign Staff.
Small companies are banned from recruiting foreign staff in a bid to create jobs for Saudis and scale down the kingdom's unemployment rate. Emphasising the need to rationalise recruitment of foreign workers to balance the labour market, Labour Minister Ghazi Al Gosaibi says: "Labour offices have been instructed to...

Jobs in America.
082421062X Jobs in America. Ed. by David Ramm. H.W. Wilson Company 2006 181 pages $50.00 Paperback The reference shelf; v.78, no.4 HD5724 This volume contains reprints of 26 articles...