Manpower Export
Mosharraf defends state arrangement with Malaysia
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday defended the government's decision to bar private recruiting agencies from exporting manpower to Malaysia.
Now only the government will send workers to Malaysia under its own arrangement, according to an agreement reached by Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur.
Following the move, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira), the platform of private recruiting agencies, on Wednesday threatened to stop manpower export to other countries to press for change of the decision.
“The government will send workers to Malaysia as Kuala Lumpur wants it this way,” Mosharraf told journalists at his office in the capital.
“The two countries have signed minutes before signing a formal accord. So, there is no scope to review the decision. There is no scope for recruiting agencies to send manpower to Malaysia,” he said.
He hoped that the decision will benefit the workers.
“The migrant workers were cheated earlier, but in this way, there is no scope to be cheated. But we are not terming Baira as fraud,” he added.
He said the government is not a rival of Baira.
“We have not employed them as contractors, but we have given licence to them as recruiting agencies. So, Baira has to follow the government rules and regulations,” said the minister.
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