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Emiratisation
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Easier work culture lures
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New emiratisation drive
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Have your say: Emiratisation move
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Companies split over decision
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Tanmia: Enough nationals for HR posts
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Labour ministry to target 10,000 posts
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Emiratisation 'won't target expat secretaries in small businesses'
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Ministry to oversee recruitment
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Revised labour law ready in August
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Tanmia to prevent paper emiratisation
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No more emiratisation quotas soon
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Tourism sector to step up emiratisation
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Emiratisation 'will rectify division of labour market'
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Expat secretaries to be allowed new positions
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Companies may opt to keep secretaries
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Finding jobs for UAE nationals
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Some private firms 'lack commitment'
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Two thirds of unemployed are women
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Human resource development project to help achieve nationalisation goals
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Emiratisation programme targets 2,000 jobs this year
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Ministry to support Careers UAE 2007
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Career expo aims to fulfil emiratisation goals
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'Training is key to emiratisation of human resources sector'
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Companies keen to hit emiratisation targets
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UAE nationals to be trained for UN jobs
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Tanmia to train Emiratis for jobs in retail sector
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UAE nationals check out career options in retail sector at job fair
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Retail sector emerges as the place to develop career
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Emiratis explore new job frontiers
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Two-year plan will enable Emiratis to get UN experience
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Job seekers to be employed in health sector
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Unemployment figure rises as Emiratis seek better jobs
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Meeting discusses plan to restructure labour market
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Unified policies 'will create employment'
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Partnership to find private sector jobs for Emiratis
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Moving Emiratisation ahead gradually but surely
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UAE reiterates pledge to provide decent jobs for all
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Agreement to boost employment in Fujairah
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Sharjah centre set up to enhance skills of young UAE nationals
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Tanmia to train Emirates University students for employment market
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Proposal moots job security for Emiratis
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Opinion
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
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UAE labour shortage on the horizon?
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Don't shoot the messengers
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Opinion: We came, we work, we go
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Labour dispute is blackmail
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Five-day week on its way
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Learn and earn while on the job
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A positive step to root out illegals
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Tackling labour issues
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Key talent must be retained, experts say
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Pay and conditions
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Workers demand 'overtime' money
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Modern labour accommodation to be set up
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Labour needs laws. And fast
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Sewage workers suffer from respiratory troubles
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Have your say: Minimum wage
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Negotiation best way to set salary
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Workers want holiday on May Day
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Poor salaries leave safety inspectors' posts vacant
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Have your say: The UAE work culture
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Special panel to study minimum wage plan
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Ajman puts halt to construction work after nine at night
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Labourers make parks their homes for 22 months
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Hundreds take to streets for better working conditions and pay rise
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Labour recruiting agencies may be shut down
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Discrimination 'a big issue'
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India plans MoU on labour in Gulf
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Decision on outdoor summer work expected by tomorrow
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Ministry sets midday break timing
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Satellite technology 'will aid ministry'
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Power returns to Jebel Ali labour living quarters
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Water cut likely to hit labour accommodations for days
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Dubai Municipality to study income discrimination
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Maids admit to faking claims of abuse
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Four teams tasked with studying global labour laws
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Workers seek better living conditions
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Firms violating break rule to be named and shamed
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Finding suitable jobs for nationals
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'We will ensure rule is enforced'
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No noon break for key utility employees
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Firms caught flouting summer break law
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Unpaid workers urge speedy end to ordeal
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Awareness campaign kicks off
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Cleaners fear to file complaint at ministry
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Ministry orders employer to pay for workers' hotel stay
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Ministry to name break violators
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Cleaners appeal over 12-hour shifts
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Fines for firms ignoring midday break
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Ailing toilet cleaner resigns from job
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Workers ask for midday break during Ramadan
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Desperate Indians head to Iraq for work
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Heat takes its toll on labourers
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New worker residences 'will improve conditions'
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Public relations drive rolls into Mussafah
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Firms which leave workers to rest in heat to be fined
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Workers get Dh6m in unpaid wages
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'Finally we are receiving what is our right...'
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Abandoned workers recount ordeal
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Hundreds of 'bachelors' crammed in squalid and dilapidated buildings
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Hundreds protest over non-payment of wages
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Ministry to intensify labour inspections
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India plans to train workers headed for Gulf
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Injured worker fights to get compensation
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Police seize five pickups transporting labourers in RAK
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Camps to be shut are 'unsuitable' for living
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Workers turn down two-day weekend plan
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Labour units 'failing civic standards will be shut'
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Stranded women say only option is to work as maids
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Jobseekers complain of recruitment agency 'scam'
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UAE signs MoU with Pakistan
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Big jump in favourable verdicts for workers
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Workers in moral dilemma over shifting graveyard in Fujairah
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It's either short leave or no pay
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Worker housing safety lapse to be punished
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Basic wage of Filipino maids double
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Hundreds of employees suffer injuries at work
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Labourers win housing battle
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Radical changes in labour law mooted
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10 firms caught violating safety standards
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City for workers begins to take shape
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Hundreds of workers forced to live in attics
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Housing zone at Industrial City completed
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Companies housing employees in industrial premises to face closure
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Housing complexes closed to protect workers' rights
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Safety rules for buildings under construction soon
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Report 'does not reflect ground realities'
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Ministry to set minimum wage for workers soon
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Weekends far away from home
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New contract to protect domestic helpers
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Female workers take group showers to beat the clock
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Employer cannot deduct visa fees
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Hospital staff face job dilemma
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Filipinos upbeat over new labour agreement
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Workers file complaint over unpaid wages
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Company breaks barriers through rewards
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Filipinas discouraged working as maids
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Health insurance law violators warned
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Stiffer penalties for firms violating break
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Salary to be paid in banks
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Sharjah ban on worker buses in city criticised
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Ministry resolves labour issues during open day
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Heat is on to ensure midday break rule
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Volunteers to help applicants fill in forms
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Authorities urged to allow labour unions
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Workers can collect salaries from post offices and exchange firm
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Midday break violators will be named and shamed - minister
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No place to escape from searing sun
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Midday break: Companies can start early to compensate for time lost
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Companies promise to adhere midday break
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Worker protest causes traffic chaos
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Heat prevention tips to help labourers
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Heat strikes in the emirate
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Open day proves boon for some workers in trouble
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Heat cases 'take a nosedive with midday break rule'
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102 companies fined more than Dh1m for violating break rule
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Special unit to check implementation of safety rules
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'Only 11,000 have used amnesty offer in Abu Dhabi'
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Ministry cracks the whip on midday-rule violators
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Public sector 'not bound by break rule'
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Lukewarm reply to job offers
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Toiling in the heat, serving with a smile
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Manager vows action against nude workers
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Midday rule violators say they were unaware of regulations
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600 workers march against deduction of food allowance from meagre salaries
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Workers deported for demanding salary hike
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530 firms flouted noon break rule
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Sri Lanka hikes wages of maids
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21 firms found employing illegal workers
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Inspection reveals labour violations
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New system will ensure electronic salary payment
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No more salaries in cash for workers from January
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Ministry steps in to help destitute labourers
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Sri Lanka sets minimum wage for workers
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90% of accommodation for labourers meet criteria
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Senior employees in top posts exempt from degree verification
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Losses and manpower problems feared
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Managers who ill-treat workers will be prosecuted - Dahi
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Iraq experience leaves its scars
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Labour ministry told to protect workers
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Illegal workers pay a heavy price for that little extra cash
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Human rights watchdog seeks collective worker representation
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Firm 'has not paid wages for three months'
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UAE to monitor occupational health and safety
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Rights report 'ignores UAE steps to protect workers'
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Work ban for leaving job 'is unfair'
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Expat workers to undergo stringent health examination
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Dh600 health policy cover in to stay in 2008
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Labourers to assess their living standards
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Mission work permits from January 2
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Labour Ministry to hold conference aimed at improving workers' benefits
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Legal Indian housemaids 'do not face abuse'
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Ministers to meet to discuss workers' welfare
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Labour officials work on draft of new declaration
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Service centres to educate workers about their rights
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Lack of data hits labour welfare plans
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Officials sidestep contentious six-year residency cap for workers
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'Revamp sponsorship system'
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Nine teams set up to address labour problems
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More workers are paid electronically
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Sponsors to pay for return tickets of absconding maids
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Health clinics overwhelmed by influx of new workers
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Workers forced to live in freezing tent by recruiter
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From open tent to proper shelter
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Sharjah companies struggle to find homes for workers
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Filipinos urged not to fall prey to agents
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Sport championships to spread awareness among workers
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Construction firm says workers' demands instigated by third party
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More labourers being paid through banks
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Labour panel lets workers play games to know them
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'Minimum wage means we can no longer afford to hire maids'
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Counter workers at Emirates Post complain about longer work day
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Maids work in UAE for lower salaries
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Fewer Emiratis employing Indian housemaids
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Service centre for workers opened
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Abu Dhabi labour ministry scraps degree verification system
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UAE laws and agreements guarantee labour rights
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Bachelors say grim living conditions hard to change
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Work on housing for labourers resumes
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Companies 'need to show more gratuity'
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A learning trip with a workers' accommodation inspector
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Lootah warns against overcrowding in rooms
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Evaluating Dubai's labour accommodation
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Protests
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2,000 labourers damage company property
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Labourers refuse coming back to work
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Protesting labourers still baulk
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New workers to replace protesting staff
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Facts and figures
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Labour protests in 2005
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'We had no idea workers were planning to protest'
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Protesting workers return to their site
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Deportation for rioters
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Negotiation best way to set salary
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Workers from two firms protest over unpaid wages
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Indian labourers suspected of being behind 'threats to disrupt work'
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Labourers in Sharjah march for wages
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Sharjah labourers protest over unpaid wages
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Ex-Naxals not seen behind violent protests
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Minister stands by statement on ex-Naxals
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Many construction workers deported
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Labourers refuse to work citing 'heat'
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800 take to streets over quarters
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Labour officials flay violence
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70 employees protest working conditions
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All protests 'must have a valid basis'
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200 workers protest over unpaid wages
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Workers had no right to protest, says company official
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Protesting workers claim they are underpaid and overworked
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Police hotline effective in reducing labour protests
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Protest over unpaid wages in second day
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1,600 workers march from Ajman to Sharjah over unpaid wages
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Employees seek help of court and embassy to get unpaid wages
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Significant fall in labour complaints
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100 protest at construction site
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Company not paying promised wages, say Chinese workers
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Workers protest non-payment of salaries for months
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Protesting labourers refuse to resume work
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Chinese workers camp out on street in protest
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Protesting Chinese workers to be deported
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Thousands of workers stop work demanding increase in salary
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Unpaid workers seek ministry help to end their misery and go home
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Labourers back to work after protest, say police
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Dubai Police help end violent labour protest
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Workers told to abandon protest after being assured of salary increase
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200 workers demand salary raise
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Violent protestors could be deported
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Workers to be deported after violent demonstration
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800 arrested workers remain in custody
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Hundreds of Chinese labourers protest
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Workers receive pay hike after downing tools
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Labourers repatriated after salary dispute
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Emiratis consider legal action over job loss
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visas and the law
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Faster change-overs for expat job hunters
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Workers' plight remains unresolved
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14 exemptions for labour fines
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Ask the law: What is the new 6-month visa?
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Ministry seeks Dh120m to beef up labour inspections
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National faces charges for selling labour permits
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India plans MoU on labour in Gulf
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Medicals for UAE-bound workers
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Unskilled workers can stay for 6 years: Al Ka'abi
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Retaining passports is 'forcible labour'
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Expatriate workers to be screened for their skills
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Worker wins five-year legal battle for salary
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June 30, 2006
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Expats still on non-immigrant status
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Six-month ban rule for late return scrapped
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Clamp down on 'fake contracts'
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Fines for firms ignoring midday break
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No more ban stamps in expats' passports
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Companies may opt to keep secretaries
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300 companies violate midday break rule
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Clampdown on exploitation of unskilled workers
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Workers given papers without firm's knowledge
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Decision on maids will benefit all parties, say officials
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'Maids must be made aware of their rights'
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Teachers without labour cards 'open to exploitation'
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47 illegal workers arrested in Sharjah
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Companies to pay Dh5m in fines for violating break law
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Unskilled workers must learn English
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Dh7m fine for violating midday break rule
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New link reduces time to process labour and health cards
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Specialised labour court to be set up
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Labour MoU to stop dodgy middlemen
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Private sector paid labour ministry Dh3b this year
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Specialist labour court to solve disputes quickly
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Agreement to end worker exploitation
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Organisation in service of the needy far from home
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Firms given time to cancel unused permits
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35,000 changed jobs last year, says Al Ka'abi
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Firms with illegal staff penalised
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Companies hit with Dh10,000 fines
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Recruitment agencies taking fees from job-seekers 'to be shut down'
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Move to enforce legal rulings
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Temporary work permit open to all
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Modified mission work permit for all firms
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Diplomats, helpers hail 'contract'
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Salient features of the contract
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Firms can apply for work permits online
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New contract to protect domestic helpers
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Deal signed to protect Filipino workers
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Maid disappears leaving child at home
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No group worker visas for firms defaulting on salaries
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Limited contract workers can shift jobs
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Amnesty for illegal workers proposed
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Cabinet move to curb illegals
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Two months in jail and fine for sheltering illegals
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Hundreds throng missions
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Part-time work permits for youngsters
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Officials split on joint policy in hiring maids
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Early efforts 'have curbed illegal Pakistani expats'
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Legal workers think amnesty is free holiday ticket
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No ban illegals who make use of amnesty
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Few know of 'no ban' clause
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Outpasses for Indians to be issued within four days
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Working students 'grow up to be more responsible'
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Opportunists prey on ignorance of labourers
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Expired labour cards can be renewed without paying fines, says ministry
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Workers unsure of pardon rules for absconders
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More than 100 Filipinos have left under amnesty
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Guide for amnesty-seekers issued
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Amnesty seekers rush to collect outpasses
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Indian consulate issues 1,500 outpasses
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Sophisticated cameras will aid inspectors in site checks
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Indian embassy to open seven counters
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18,000 illegal residents obtain outpasses
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15 companies fined for making labourers work in midday heat
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Employers warned over passport malpractice
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27% rise in visa cancellations since amnesty announced
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Labour ministry policy to limit marginal workforce on the anvil
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New amnesty centre opened at school for illegal workers
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NOCs 'needed for new permits'
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Illegal maids in two minds about returning home
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Firms with expired work permits will not get new ones after amnesty
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Ministry can lift ban on absconders during amnesty
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Ministry names and shames violators of midday-break rule
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Indian Embassy to provide shelter and food for amnesty seekers
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Efforts on to curb swindling of workers
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Number of Indian amnesty seekers tapers off, say officials
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110,650 illegal residents have applied for amnesty so far
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Outpass applications to be accepted until August 13
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Airlines expect exodus of illegal workers
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Headquarters receives 50,000 applications
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Illegals take legal route to home country
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Illegal resident flying home
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Job seekers are warned over visa documents
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Workers on visit visa get life ban
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Labour ministry 'pushing workers to breach law'
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No room for illegal labourers
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Health certificates must come from authorised clinics
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Change in rules for shifting jobs
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Confusion over rules for NOC requirement
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Work with no strings attached
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Labour ministry rethinks rules on changing jobs
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Labour ministry pulls the plug on transactions of 3,801 firms
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Labour law 'needs radical changes'
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Firms will be able to cancel labour cards online
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