Employing Foreign Workers
İÇİNDEKİLERContentsForeword Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Focus 1.2 What is temporary in labour import? 1.3 What is user-friendly ? 1.4 Overview of types of economic immigration 2. Why have an economy-driven labour-immigration policy ? 2.1 Absolute shortages of labour 2.2 Relative shortages of labour 2.3 When does a country gain by importing labour ? 3. The first steps to be taken to formulate a policy 3. 1 Domestic policy coordination mechanism 3 2 The public employment or immigration service vs. private recruitment agents 3 3 Linking up with the foreign labour supply 3.4 Involving private recruitment agents 3.4.1 Legal relationship between agencies and clients 3.4.2 Legal relationship between agencies and public authorities 3.4.3 Regulation and control of private agencies 4. Contents of a bilateral immigration agreement 5 Operationalizing different kinds of admission policy 5.1 Quotas and limitations 5.2 Instituting a vacancy test 5 3 Organizing a seasonal migrant labour scheme 5.4 ls it sensible to envisage a seasonal type of labour import for ordinary jobs ? 5.4.1 Economic doubts 5.4.2 Human rights concerns 5. 5 The basic procedure for engaging migrant workers for ordinary jobs 5.6 A fully fledged approval procedure summarized 5.7 Visas, permits, authorizations 5.8 Fees . 5.8.1 Administrative fees 5.8.2 Economically oriented fees 5.9 Monitoring and statisticsEMPLOYING FOREIGN WORKERS 6. Post-admission policies in respect of lawfully present migrant workers 6.1 Equality in terms and conditions of employment, vocational training and related matters 6.2 Access to employment other than that for which a migrant was recruited 6.2.1 Job changes desired by migrants 6.2.2 Involuntary job changes 6.2.3 Other considerations regarding the construction industry 6.2.4 Should domestic workers be treated differently ? 6.3 Residence, expulsion or normal return 6.3.1 Residence permits 6.3.2 Expulsion 6.3.3 Return 6.4 Freedom of association in the field of work 6.5 Health care and occupational safety 6.6 Social security matters 6.7 Housing 6.8 Support services required for a user-friendly policy 6.8.1 Forms 6.8.2 Planning and monitoring 6.8.3 Training administrators 6.8.4 Equal opportunity training 6.8.5 Language training for migrants 6.8.6 Preparing local schools 6.8.7 Complaint and redress mechanisms 6.8.8 Other integration assistance 7. The question of family migration or family reunification 7.1 Scope and conditions 7.2 Who is to benefit? 8. Coping with illegal immigration and employment 8.1 Prevention 8.2 Expulsion 8.3 Regularization 8.4 Broad principles of regularization 8.4.1 Eligibility rules 8.4.2 Publicity 8.4.3 Rights of regularized foreigners 8.5. The informal sector 9. Conclusions Appendix The lLO's information system for legislation concerning migrant workers Table. Major migrant-receiving countries, 1990 The table on "Major migrant-receiving countries" explained1 Major types of regular international economic immigration 2 Austria: Involvement of the social partners 3 Links between receiving and sending countries' major institutions involved in transferring labour 4 Switzerland: Quotas of various kinds 5 United States: Selected labour market tests 6. A seasonal type of policy for a sector, region or size of enterprise 7.Operationalizing an economically efficient policy of engaging migrant workers, including those already present in the country 8.Approval procedure for requests by employers 9.Russian Federation: Hiring and use of foreign labour 10.Free choice of employment according to the UN Convention 11. Loss of employment according to lLO Recommendation No. 12 Reasons for public support for having foreign trainees learn the local language Japanese) 13 Involving ethnic associations and immigrant-serving bodies in reaularization 14 NATLEX classification for migrant workers NOTLARA Manual on Policies and Procedures of Special Interest to Middle and Low Income Countries |
