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Malaysia hasn’t informed officially banning recruitment of workers |
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February 19, 2001
Dhaka--(UNB)- Authorities here have not yet received any such official orders banning recruitment of Bangladeshi workers by Malaysia, as reported in newspapers yesterday. “We don’t know anything officially about it…Our mission in Kuala Lumpur is also in the dark,” Labour and Manpower Minister MA Mannan told UNB yesterday, informing that manpower export to that country continued. A report, datelined Kuala Lumpur, said Malaysia banned recruitment from Bangladesh and the ban took effect last month. Malaysia recruited 17,237 workers from Bangladesh in 2000 after a successful state-level negotiation ended a moratorium on flow of manpower to the Southeast Asian superpower. Another 2034 Bangladeshi workers went to Malaysia in January and 557 till February 15, ministry officials said, encountering the reports that ban took effect from last month. Malaysia is home to roughly 160,000 valid workers from Bangladesh. So far 402,733 Bangladeshi workers have found job in the country’s construction, farming, electronics and service sectors since it started emerging as an economic power and recruiting labourforce from abroad. Employment Bureau officials and returnees from Malaysia said a strong lobby has been active there to discourage recruitment of Bangladeshi workers. As hardworking and easily trainable workers from Bangladesh are more preferred on the Malaysian job market, the lobbyists found it a threat to workers from neighbouring countries. |