Migrant Workers

Government widens age range for foreign domestic servants

The immigration department has widened the age range for foreign domestic servants, drivers and attendants to between 23 and 58 years of age.

Maldives to deport foreign cashiers

Migrant workers found working as cashiers will be deported immediately, the department of immigration has warned. A “special raid operation” has been launched in Malé today to identify expatriate cashiers.

Maldives placed back on US human trafficking watch list

“The government did not initiate any prosecutions and there were no convictions in 2014, a decrease from one conviction in 2013, and some officials warned businesses in advance of planned raids to investigate suspected trafficking offences or other labour abuses,” reads the US State Department’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons report.

Eight Bangladeshi men arrested for gambling

A total of eight Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in the Maldives June on charges of gambling. They were arrested during police raids and caught with large sums of money and card decks.

Bangladeshi worker found dead with face smashed in

New law excludes migrant workers from Ramadan bonus

More than 124,000 migrant workers in the Maldives

Audit flags deficiencies in control of expatriate workers

Comment: Migrant workers’ voice – illegal and silenced in the Maldives

Overseas workers banned from cashier jobs

Maldives bans migrant worker protests, threatens to cancel visas

Immigration department suspends exit permit regulations indefinitely

Exit permits required for foreign workers from today

HRCM raises concern over growing religious conservatism in Universal Period Review

Maldives strategically unprepared for SEZs, argues former Finance Minister Inaz

Immigration department boosts efforts to curb undocumented workers

Majlis passes Sexual Offenses, and Social Protection bills

“Good response” to voluntary repatriation program

HRCM introduces benchmark for migrant worker rights

Tourism worker union threatens voter boycott if workers’ rights not protected