Cheated B\\\'deshi workers return home from Sudan

Bangladeshi migrants, returned home from Sudan being cheated by a manpower agent, demanded Wednesday compensation and their due salaries as per their job contract papers.
They made their demands at a human chain in front of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment ministry at the city's Probashi Kallyan Bhaban.
They also claimed that although they submitted formal applications to the ministry and Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) in this connection, they are yet to get any cooperation from the authorities concerned.
The workers demanded salary of seven months, migration cost and compensation for other purposes including physical and mental torture.  
Some 58 overseas job seekers went to Sudan in January and February last through Al Purbasha, a recruitment agency in Dhaka. They were also given smart card and BMET clearance.
So far 37 workers returned home under arrangements made by the manpower agency while four others fled the workplace last month.  
Following the government's intervention, the recruiting agency repatriated them.
Ershad, one of the returnees said although the recruiting agency promised to give them jobs in a textile factory at a salary of Tk 40,000 per month. But they did not get it.
"When we demanded salary as per contract, the company officials misbehaved with us," he alleged.
Each job-seeker paid Tk 200,000 to Tk 250,000 to go to Sudan, he said.
The manpower agent also misbehaved with the workers and did not help them get their due salaries, he added.

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