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Thursday July 3, 12:42 PMOpinion - Bangladesh's Troubled Workers in MalaysiaDHAKA, July 3 Asia Pulse - The difficulties in which 32 Bangladeshi workers have found themselves in Kuala Lumpur raise once again the issue of what is yet not being done to ease the plight of our citizens abroad.We have on a number of occasions drawn the attention of the authorities here in Bangladesh to the paramount need to ensure that recruiting agencies follow rules and norms aimed specifically at ensuring the welfare of Bangladeshis sent abroad to work in various firms. While we realise that a good number of these agencies have certainly been operating on the basis of standard procedures, there have been quite a few others which have not exactly been clean and clear in their dealings with the workers they send overseas. At the same time, we think it is time to inquire into the workings of the overseas firms behind the bad deals with local recruitment agencies insofar as our workers are concerned. The 32 workers we speak of have been stranded at Kuala Lumpur airport, and most shockingly in a depot, for a week because the company for which they are supposed to work refused to receive them on arrival. The reason given out for such an attitude is simply bizarre. The employing firm has made the allegation that the Bangladeshi recruiting agency, Shikha Trade International, failed to make it a payment of more than 70,000 Ringgit as part of their financial agreement on the workers. The picture that comes up is a condition in which the stranded workers cannot at all be held responsible for the troubles they are now in. They have all cleared their dues just like tens of thousands of poverty-stricken Bangladeshis have always done in the past. It was thus quite natural for them to expect, once they found themselves in Malaysia, to get to work and begin planning a better future for their families back home. That has not happened because of the very bad way in which the recruitment agency in Dhaka and the employing firm in Kuala Lumpur have been dealing with the situation. Bangladeshi workers have of late fallen regular victim to the whims of employment bodies in Malaysia. One is now impelled into asking if the Bangladesh authorities responsible for ensuring expatriate workers' welfare abroad have at all been doing their job. We will be happy if this new plight of our people abroad is handled to everyone's satisfaction. (Dhaka Courier) |
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