Migrant workers are people who move from one country to another in order get a job or pursuing a better life, Migrant workers often work in hotels or restaurants, food processing, fruit picking and shellfish gathering (UK) but they can also work in companies with management positions ranging from managers to secretaries. Being a migrant worker usually generates Brain Drain (ex: Colombian scientific working in a laboratory in Switzerland).
Sometimes the term can be confused or mixed with expatriates and an overseas experiences but the main difference is that while a migrant is traveling to get a job, expatriates are sent by a company to accomplish a goal and the overseas experience travel on their own, to get cultural experiences or to learn a foreign language.
What can governments and the private sector do to improve migrant’s conditions?
GOVERNMENT | PRIVATE SECTOR |
· Facilitate the Integration of immigrants to the society by helping them to be legal · Create a law that guarantees decent working conditions such as: minimum wage, range of permitted working hours and benefits. · Encourage companies to hire migrants giving them some benefits as tax reduction. · Supervision of working conditions in companies | · Works as intermediaries in front of the government for paperwork to be easier. · Have hiring policies based on ethical and legal behavior. And also promote those behaviors in other companies. |
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