MoU signed: UAE to recruit 1,000 female workers

ABU DHABI, Oct 26 (UNB):  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is going to recruit 1,000 female workers in 14 areas, including housemaids, drivers, and gardeners, from Bangladesh in the first phase and more would be recruited later.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed between the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) of Bangladesh and professional labour recruiting agency (Amala) group of the UAE at the St Regis Hotel.

Director General of BMET Shamsun Nahar and Chairman of Amala group Humaid Mohammed Al Muhiri signed the MoU on behalf of their respective sides.

With the signing of this MoU, female workers could be sent to the UAE through favourable terms and conditions so that the security of female workers could be ensured.

Amala is formed through the Social Security Fund of the Home Ministry of UAE.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now in Abu Dhabi on a three-day official visit to the UAE aiming to further strengthen Bangladesh's bilateral relations with the oil-rich Gulf nation and increase manpower export.

Earlier, report adds: UAE is planning to appoint a labour attaché to its mission in Dhaka early next year to ease the manpower import process from Bangladesh.

UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said this as he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her hotel here.

"The UAE Foreign Minister during the meeting told the Prime Minister that they've a plan to appoint a labour attaché to their Bangladesh mission," Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said while briefing reporters after the meeting held at the bilateral meeting room of the hotel.

PM's Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhury were also present.

During the meeting, the Foreign Minister said, the Bangladesh Prime Minister and the UAE Foreign Minister discussed various issues of mutual interests, including trade and investment in a cordial atmosphere.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said he visited Bangladesh in 2009 and has a plan to visit it again in the near future.

Mahmood Ali said the plan to appoint a labour attaché by the UAE is a positive move as well as a positive development. "We're working and we're discussing to get a joint communiqué at the end of the visit," he said.

The Prime Minister will complete her three-day visit on Monday.

On Monday, she will go to Dubai to hold a meeting with vice president and Prime Minister of UAE and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

After holding the meeting, the Prime Minister will go to Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) for holding meeting with its ruler Sheikh Saud Bin Aaqr Al Qasimi.