Malaysia has resumed recruiting Bangladeshi migrant workers after a four-year pause, an official said today, in a move easing Dhaka's remittance worries after a jobs marketplace in a Middle East dusty up.
The Bangladesh supervision yesterday voiced which an online registration process for those looking work in Malaysia would begin from Jan 13, following calls for 10,000 plantation workers.
The proclamation followed a government-to-government understanding in Nov to recruit up to 500,000 workers in manufacturing, service, agriculture as well as building a whole sectors in subsequent 5 years.
"We have been starting with 10,000 workers as well as by a end of this year a accumulative series would be 100,000," abroad employment cabinet member Zafar Ahmed Khan toldAFP.
There have been now an estimated 500,000 Bangladeshi labourers in Malaysia, but a South-East Asian republic has not hired given 2009 following reports of recruitment agencies promulgation a outrageous series of migrants to work illegally.
Impoverished Bangladesh, which heavily relies on multi-billion dollar remittance to coax a economy, has some 8.5 million workers in 157 nations across a globe.
The United Arab Emirates stopped employing workers from Dhaka in August. The Gulf republic had been a top recruiter from Bangladesh given 2007, replacing Saudi Arabia, which also drastically cut workman numbers.
Migrant workers sent home a jot down US$ 12.85 billion in a final mercantile year ended June, accounting for 12 percent of Bangladesh's gross made at home product, according to official figures.
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