Bangladesh eyes deal with Malaysia to protect migrant workers from abuse
Thursday, 16 Jan 2020 06:50 AM MYT
Bangladesh’s current informal recruitment system involves unofficial middlemen — who despite bringing recruiters and rural workers together — often give false promises about jobs and then charge exorbitant fees that trap many workers in debt bondage. More than 250,000 Bangladeshi migrants moved to Malaysia for work between 2016 and 2018 under a previous migration agreement that saw workers charged an official fee of US$1,900 — although middlemen were said to have widely demanded far larger sums.
“Migrants always pay more,” she said. “No matter what the fee, the government needs to improve its monitoring system.” “Workers should also be able to pay money through banks and not middlemen for transparency,” he said.
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