The number of Bangladeshi workers who headed to the Middle East countries in search of jobs surged 177 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2022, official figures showed.
The Malaysian government has taken a new move to hire Bangladeshi workers under a government-to-government arrangement as the labour recruitment through private agencies that began in August has been slow amid allegations of high migration cost and syndication.
Overseas job diversification has got momentum in recent months with skilled workforces migrating abroad for jobs in various sectors, but the number of such migrants is too low to significantly boost inward remittances to the country that is now badly in need of healthy foreign exchange reserves to cushion the economic fallout of the Russia-Ukraine War. In Gulf countries, there
An alliance of recruiting agencies yesterday urged both Bangladesh and Malaysia to ensure participation of all valid Bangladeshi recruiting agencies in sending workers to the Southeast Asian country.