Number of expatriate returnees amid COVID-19 not alarming: Imran
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DHAKA, Dec 18, 2020 (BSS) –Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed, MP, today said the number of expatriate returnees during the coronavirus situation has not become alarming yet.
“It was feared that the economic downturn and the impact of the corona pandemic would lead to the collapse of the labor market in the major employer countries, leaving many foreign workers unemployed. But hopefully, the number of returning workers so far has not become alarming,” he said.
The minister said this at a press briefing on the occasion of International Migrants Day-2020 at the conference room of the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment here.
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A Jordanian firm is recruiting 12,000 skilled workers from Bangladesh to apparel factories. );
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Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen revealed the information in a statement on Tuesday
“I would like to share a piece of good news. Jordan s RMG sector will recruit more than 12,000 skilled labour from Bangladesh in one year,” he said.
State-owned Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited will process the recruitment, he said.
The employer and his team will visit Bangladesh in the coming days, he added.
Around 70,000 Bangladeshis work in Jordan and 45,000 are in the garment industry, according to Bangladesh embassy in the Middle-Eastern country.
Jordan is one of the few countries that recruit skilled workers in the apparel industry.
The news comes at a time when overseas jobs for migrant workers from Bangladesh declined significantly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to BOESL, 9,307 garment workers, 9,199 of them female, went to Jordan between July 2018 and June 2019.
The garment sector in the middle-eastern country employs about 69,000 workers, of which 75 per cent are women, said the IndustriALL Global Union last year.
About 16,000 of the workers are from Jordan, while 53,000 migrant workers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, China, Cambodia, Madagascar, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Syria make up the rest.
Jordan s RMG sector to recruit over 12,000 workers from Bangladesh: Foreign minister UNB UNB
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Jordan s readymade garments (RMG) sector will recruit over 12,000 skilled workers from Bangladesh in one year. This recruitment will be processed only through Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited (BOESL), he told reporters today.
One of the employers in Jordan met officials at Bangladesh Embassy there and his team will visit Bangladesh soon.
They have requested Bangladesh to allow recruitment of skilled workers who do not have passports, and facilitate providing the selected workers with passports in the shortest possible time.
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