State Minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said an investigation committee will be formed to look into the incidents of distress caused to migrants heading to Malaysia and measures will be taken against those responsible.
The situation is worsened by the issuance of fake demand letters, leaving some workers stranded as their prospective employers face blacklisting by Malaysian authorities for corruption.
Skilled labour migration to Singapore will be up against formidable challenges in the coming months as the city-state has curtailed quotas for Bangladeshis and is hiring workers from alternative sources amid declining construction projects. Labour recruiters have also attributed the quota reduction to declining trust in Bangladeshi workers, as many of them have allegedly been
Moreover, further setbacks are posed by Malaysia's decision to freeze new foreign worker recruitment in March as well as Oman suspending the issuance of visas to Bangladeshi citizens at the end of 2023 due to an oversupply of workers from the South Asian nation.