Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said Bangladesh will send workers to Malaysia maintaining all necessary protocols, including vaccination and other formalities, report agencies.
She gave the assurance while visiting Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Saravanan called on her at her official residence Ganobhaban.
She also expressed her deep satisfaction in holding the first meeting of the Joint Working Group(JWC) between the two countries.
She expressed the hope that both sides would be able to devise ways to ensure safe, regular, inexpensive, and orderly employment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia.
She appreciated the decision of the Malaysian government to recruit Bangladeshi security personnel for non-military civilian use.
During the meeting, the Malaysian minister too expressed his satisfaction over holding of the ongoing JWG meeting.
He appraised the Bangladeshi premier about reorganization of their Human Resource Ministry from the Ministry of Home Affairs and their domestic employment process following the ILO guidelines.
"We have taken 5-Year Action Plan for the Migrant Workers," he said. To this end, he mentioned, they have already increased the minimum wage to RM 1500.
In such a case, the Malaysian minister said that Bangladesh could earn US$45 billion in next 5 years with more than 500,000 expatriate workers in Malaysia.
Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said now they have digitized all employment processes so that every step protects the rights of the migrant workers.
Nothing that Malaysia only took online applications from the job-seekers, he said they have installed e-payment directly from the employers to the workers' salary card account without keeping recruiting agencies in the middle.
However, he expressed his deep concern over the chance of human trafficking as the implementation of the MoU signed between the two countries got delayed.
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