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Bangladesh takes little effort to secure jobs abroad The New Nation
Staff Reporter :
The government has taken a minimalist approach to protecting job markets abroad with its efforts limited only to requesting the host governments to employ Bangladeshi workers as several hundred thousand workers have already returned home after losing jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thousands more of Bangladeshi workers abroad are also at risk of losing jobs amid an economic downturn in the host countries as the disease has continued spreading in most of them, officials and experts said.
Trafficking in and safety of job seekers abroad, female workers in particular, have remained challenges for the governments in both sending and receiving countries as the Bangladesh government has taken a programme to observe International Migrants Day today.