After a two-year suspension, Indonesia has just signed an MOU with Malaysia and resumed sending workers there.
Not wanting any migrant worker to suffer the way she did, Matsuni was pleased when Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the decision to impose a moratorium on sending workers to Saudi Arabia, effective August 1st 2011.
Anis Hidayah, executive director of the migrant worker advocacy agency Migrant Care, told CNN that she was pleased with the government's decision to stop sending workers to Saudi Arabia but expressed a need for serious action beyond the creation of task forces given the responsibility of monitoring migrant worker protection overseas.
In the face of the present economic crisis, many governments have bought time by sending foreign workers home.
Indonesia's Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar last year announced the country planned to stop sending domestic workers abroad from 2017.
While the country has since lifted the ban, it only resumed sending migrant workers after more than a year of protracted negotiations on protecting the rights of domestic workers in Malaysia.
Many H-1Bs are issued to offshore outsourcing companies, many of them from India, which critics say have a business model based on sending foreign workers to the U.S. to learn jobs and then moving them overseas.
Until recently Spain and other parts of southern Europe were sending lots of workers abroad, but demographic and economic changes have made them into net labour importers.
Overall migrant workers are sending more money home than ever.
And like us, the workers were sending out these videos and images, in real time, to their friends and families using the very services that we build as technologists.
Last week, we learned that Wal-Mart is going to cut health care benefits for employees working less than 30 hours per week (and plan to adjust worker schedules to increase the number of employees working fewer hours), sending many of their workers into the Medicaid system where the taxpayer will be paying the bill.
"Instead of a blanket ban on its own women that denies them important employment opportunities, Nepal's government should work with other labor-sending governments to demand stronger protections for migrant workers in the Gulf, " Varia said.
Mexico, which has long experience of dealing with devastating earthquakes, is sending a team of doctors and search and rescue workers and infrastructure damage experts.
While aid workers were arriving and nations around the world were sending help to rebuild disaster-struck Thailand, the European Commission (EC) was sending it threats to complete a purchase of six A380 Airbus aircraft.41 The deal was allegedly on hold over EC discrimination against Thai seafood and poultry exports.42 Five days after the Tsunami, the EC raised the stakes and enacted billions of dollars in additional tariffs.
Instead, Larkin says that companies may fare better just by giving people a nice plaque, sending an email to staff, or calling a meeting to recognize certain workers publicly in front of the whole crew.
Yet emigration of skilled workers may be a consequence rather than a cause of problems in the sending country.
Coburn himself has daily been sending letters to federal agencies, demanding that they justify their decisions to furlough existing workers rather than forgo new hires or fancy conferences.
Instead of sending jobs overseas, we need to send more products overseas that are made by American workers and American business.
The residents, for instance, of Kafue, an industrial town that once bustled with workers at its textile and nitrogen factories, now talk of unemployment, the cost of sending children to school and stinking garbage.
It was built by the middle class. (Applause.) It was built by farmers and factory workers, and startups and small businesses, and companies that sent American products overseas, not sending American jobs overseas.
Venezuela said it was sending a military plane with food, medicine and drinking water, as well as a team of 50 rescue workers.
With more than 4m surplus workers, corporate Japan could easily put 2m people on to the street by this time next year, sending the unemployment figure to an unimaginable 7%.
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