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Working abroad
While a move overseas has usually made them happier than they were in the UK, nearly half of expat workers believe they could have benefited from more support from their bosses while relocating.
A British expat family was this week deported from Bermuda despite having lived there for 20 years, as the Caribbean Island starts to enforce policies designed to address the growing problem of unemployment among native Bermudans.
India has complained to the World Trade Organisation over the cost of American work visas.
The eight million overseas workers based in Saudi Arabia won't have to pay income taxes, a top legal authority in the country has decided.
Temporary labour cards which grant the holder the right to work in the United Arab Emirates are to be scrapped, and replaced by a new, more general identity card, which will be valid for two years.
New entrants into the Canadian state of Quebec will in future have to pay a $750 fee to obtain a qualified worker certificate, essential before they can get a job in the state.
Attracting younger and more language-proficient immigrants will, Canada's Immigration and Citizenship Minister hopes, mean that the country can end a "vicious cycle of unemployment" for new arrivals.
Earthquake-hit Christchurch in New Zealand has appointed a leading employment agency to help it recruit workers needed to rebuild the city.
An Australian state is aiming to attract thousands of workers from overseas in the next few years, as it prepares for a series of large-scale schemes.
A recruitment agency based in the south-west of England, where unemployment is currently described as "stubbornly high", has urged those looking for work to consider moving overseas.
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