In 15 facilities, Apple found foreign contract workers who had paid excessive recruitment fees to labor agencies.

Ensure competition among private recruitment agencies to foster the lowest recruitment fees and the best services offered to potential migrants.

In most cited transactions, the smugglers were paid $100 or $200 per worker; corporate checks were used to pay the men "recruitment fees."

The recruitment fees of domestic workers can be up to 40% of the workers salary in a two-year contract.

Until end of 2010 Singapore government have refused to regulate the recruitment fees.

In the settlement, the four companies pledged not to use factories that employ workers who have paid recruitment fees.

He said the department had no rules regarding the payment of recruitment fees overseas.

But the high recruitment fees remain, as does the practice of cheating workers on overtime.

He had earned his guinea-a-head recruitment fee, good money easily made, and his obligation to the recruits was at an end.

Many pay large recruitment fees to middlemen in their homelands who find them jobs in Saipan.