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Something is Better than Nothing: Enhancing the protection of Indian migrant workers through Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding

Petsa

2012

May-akda

Piyasiri Wickramasekara

Buod

This article is about recent interest in MOUs for cooperation on labor migration in Asia, Asia and bilateral MOUs on labor migration, the objectives of MOUs. India’s migration profile in South Asia and the context of MOUs, statistical profile of Indian migration, Indian migrant workers-features of vulnerability, bilateral cooperation: MOUs of India with destination countries, types of bilateral MOUs and agreements and the analysis of MOUs in term of its objective, scope of the agreements, job offeres and the employment contract (UAE, Oman), provisions for the protection and promotion of the welfare of workers, information provision and sharing, dispute resolution, joint committees for monitoring and follow up. This articles also focuses on applicable labor laws, absence of a normative framework to guide the MOUs, the MOUs confer disproportionate powers on employers, absence of enforcement mechanisms, non-operational Joint Committees. Moreover, it also talks about the ineffectiveness of MOUs and other mechanism that can be used to protect migrant workers.

Number of pages

4-49

Responsable institusyon

Migrant Forum in Asia

Lugar ng publikasyon

Philippines

Connections

Mga Keyword

Indian Migrant Workers, Memoranda of Understanding Effectiveness

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

General relevance - all sectors

Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

Policy analysis, Suporta ng mga hakbangin, and Statistics on work and life conditions

Target na mga grupo

Mambabatas, Employer at recruitment ahensya, Mananaliksik, and NGO / komunidad group / network ng pagkakaisa

Geographical kaugnayan

India

Spheres ng aktibidad

Ekonomya, Karapatan, Human Resource Management, Socioligie, Social Work, and Demography

Wika

Ingles