[MRCI] Campaign for the Right to Change Employer

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Campaign for the Right to Change Employer

Workers in the Employment Permit System deserve the right to change employer!

Campaign Launch & Press Conference
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
11:00 a.m.
Buswells Hotel, 26 Molesworth St., Dublin 2

All Welcome.

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Background:

There are approximately 25,000 migrant workers currently in the Employment Permit System in Ireland. These workers are only allowed to work for the employer designated on their permit. They are not allowed to freely change employer.

Binding a worker to an employer in this way is a leading factor in exploitation. Approximately 80% of all the cases taken by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland involve workers in the permit system, many employed in low-wage sectors, such as agriculture, domestic work, hotels and restaurants.

To counter exploitation and to ensure a fair playing field for compliant employers, the employment permits system must change to give employment permit holders the right to change employer in their job sector. Workers in the permit system, as all workers, deserve this most basic and fundamental right.

http://www.mrci.ie/publications/docu...eforReform.pdf