Tag: Migrant workers
Migrants who help sustain Indian economy left on the margins
Migrant workers have poor access to health services, social protection, education, housing and sanitation, food and water, and other utilities
Watch: Pandemic deepens woes of migrant workers
Working away from home, migrant workers face various challenges
Once heroes, India’s ex-Gulf workers forge new futures
Once they came home wealthy and revered, bearing gold, sunglasses, clothes and funds to buy homes, now they return penniless
SPOTLIGHT: Migrant workforce woes bite Malaysia hard during crisis
Govt discovering its neglect of foreign labour is now exacting a heavy toll
Watch: Life remains restrictive for Singapore’s migrant workers
It’s been one year since new coronavirus hit foreign worker dormitories in the city, forcing a lockdown
Cardinal Tagle lauds overseas Filipino workers for being ‘missionaries’
In Christmas message, cardinal asks — isn't it perhaps that God has guided us out of the Philippines, not only to earn a living, but also to be missionaries?
Coronavirus hits Malaysian rubber glove giant
Outbreak in factory dorm highlights Top Glove’s treatment of migrant workers
Malaysia palm oil workers discouraged from going home, rights groups say
Malaysian plantations have long faced accusations of mistreating 330,000 or so migrants
Malaysia lets undocumented migrants work but hardship fears persist
Undocumented migrants can sign up to work in construction, plantations, agriculture and manufacturing, or choose to return to home countries
Malaysia takes huge gamble on back-to-work policy
Govt needs to wean the nation off its addiction to migrant workers, but Malaysians just don’t want to do the dirty jobs