Private manpower recruiters have expressed concern over the possibility of forming a syndicate to grab business in the fresh recruitment process of workers for Malaysian market which is expected to open soon.
Leaders of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) raised the concern at a view exchange meeting with journalists at the association's office in the city on Tuesday.
Their apprehension was based on information that is being heard from different quarters, said the association leaders, expressing their stance against any type of unholy alliance of recruiters and to prevent such bad practices.
BAIRA president Benjir Ahmed said they cannot ignore the information about a possible syndicate. "Syndicate was active in this market earlier. We are hearing about it again from different sources," he told the meeting, replying to a question.
"We want all recruitment agencies to get chance to send workers to Malaysia when it will open," he said, urging the government not to allow any kind of syndicate in this market.
Malaysia suspended recruiting workers from Bangladesh on September 01 last year, following alleged involvement of money laundering and human trafficking by a syndicate of 10 private recruiting agencies.
After that, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry has been continuing its diplomatic efforts to reopen the market.
The expatriates' welfare minister told a recent programme that the Southeast Asian labour market would soon start recruiting workers from Bangladesh.
The BAIRA president Mr Ahmed also demanded making employers accountable for work place exploitations of female workers in Saudi Arabia.
He also sought the government's initiatives to backlist the abusing employers of the oil-rich country.
Mr Ahmed informed the meeting that the number of overseas employments declined in the recent months due to slow demand for workers in the Middle Eastern countries.
Meanwhile, another group of BAIRA leaders, led by its senior vice president Shafiqul Alam Firoj and vice president Monsur Ahmed Kalam, also expressed concern about the possibility of forming a syndicate.
They, however, apprehended that this time it would be a different one - unlike the previous one. The two feuding groups were blaming each-other over the issue.
This group also accused the incumbent BAIRA president and secretary general of various association-related irregularities.
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