The growing pace of economic globalization has created more migrant workers than ever before. Unemployment and increasing poverty have prompted many workers in developing countries to seek work elsewhere, while developed countries have increased their demand for labour, especially unskilled labour. As a result, millions of workers and their families travel to countries other than their own to find work. At present there are approximately 175 million migrants around the world, roughly half of them workers (of these, around 15% are estimated to have an irregular status). Women make up almost half of migrants. Migrant workers contribute to the economies of their host countries, and the remittances they send home help to boost the economies of their countries of origin. Yet at the same time migrant workers often enjoy little social protection and are vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking. Skilled migrant workers are less vulnerable to exploitation, but their departure has deprived some developing countries of valuable labour needed for their own economies. ILO standards on migration provide tools for both migrant sending and receiving countries to manage migration flows and ensure adequate protection for this vulnerable category of workers. (Note 1)
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Monday, April 7, 2014
MALAYSIA:::Report: EPF Property Investment Returns Exceed Expectations, Says Auditor-General Report
KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 (Bernama) -- The returns of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) property investment in 2013 have exceeded the target, said the first series of the Auditor-General Report 2013.
The report findings, tabled at the Parliament Monday, said that EPF received gross investment income of RM1.14 billion for investment in property and infrastructure last year, compared to annual target of RM930 million, which is an achievement of 122.5 per cent, in line with the increase in property and infrastructure investment.
Workers in Turkey face continuing repression

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Chinese workers employed at Samsung win pay rise

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Toyota car workers in India strike for better wages

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Garment workers continue fighting in Cambodia and Bangladesh

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MALAYSIA:::Enforce Minimum Wage Law, Education Ministry Urged

MTUC president Khalid Atan, who raised the matter recently, said at least 60,000 workers, mainly locals hired as guards, cleaners and gardeners, in schools had been affected since the policy was implemented last year.
Khalid said the workers only received between RM400 and RM600, which was not enough for them to pull through the month.
“Although the ministry does not directly employ the workers, it gives the authorisation to the third party to hire these workers. Therefore, something should be done to ensure they are not cheated,” he said.
Khalid was commenting o
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