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Emergency and Crisis Response for an Overseas Workforce: An Employer's Plan
Every employer hopes that the worst thing that happens to an overseas worker is a delayed flight. The test of a good employer is not whether they hope for tha
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Language and Communication Support for an Overseas Workforce: An Employer's Guide
A new worker who cannot understand a safety briefing is not a worker who is being careless. They are a worker who has not been given the means to comply. Lang
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Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of an Overseas Workforce: What Employers Can Do
An employer can arrange the visa, the flight and the accommodation and still lose a worker in the third month for a reason that has nothing to do with any of
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Pensions and Long-Term Savings for Overseas Workers: What to Find Out Before You Go
Almost every worker moving abroad to take a job learns quickly how they will be paid. Very few find out, before they go, what happens to the money that is tak
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Women Working Abroad: What to Check Before You Commit
Advice written for workers going abroad is usually written as though the worker is a man. That is not an assumption anyone states, but it shows in what is cov
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The Police Clearance Certificate: What It Is, Why It Is Asked For, and How the Process Runs
A police clearance certificate is one of the documents that most often delays an application, and it is almost always the one the applicant understood least b
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Preparing Line Managers and Supervisors for an Overseas Workforce
Every intake has a plan for the workers. Almost none has a plan for the people who will manage them. The supervisor on the shift, the team leader, the warehou
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Planning Shift Rotas for an Overseas Workforce
A rota looks like an administrative document. For a workforce that has moved country to take the job, it is closer to the terms of the placement. It decides w
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Using a Subcontractor or Labour Provider: An Employer's Due Diligence Checklist
Many employers who bring in overseas workers do not employ them directly. The workers arrive through a labour provider, a staffing agency, a subcontractor or
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Discrimination at Work Abroad: Recognising It and What to Do
A worker abroad is sometimes treated differently, and there are two very different reasons why. The first is that they are new, unfamiliar with the systems an