BAIRA demands immediate reopening of closed labor market

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Members of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA), an organization of manpower exporters, have urged the government to take appropriate steps to quickly reopen closed labor markets including Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

They made this call at a human chain program organized in front of the Expatriate Welfare Building in Eskaton, Dhaka, on Thursday (April 24).

The speakers said that currently most workers are going to only one country, Saudi Arabia. If the closed labor markets are not reopened soon, it will have a negative impact on the immigration sector. Necessary steps must be taken to ensure employment of workers abroad at low cost without any kind of syndicate.

However, Bayra members also demanded that there be no syndicates and irregularities in the launch of the labor market.

It is worth noting that, in collusion with influential leaders of the former Awami League government, they have smuggled thousands of crores of taka abroad through extreme anarchy, irregularities and corruption in the Malaysian labor market by forming a syndicate. Each of them has built up a mountain of immense wealth abroad. Because of them, poor and helpless people have become fakirs by selling their land and property.

Last year, Malaysia stopped hiring workers from Bangladesh due to allegations of irregularities through syndicates. Since then, stakeholders have been demanding an end to irregularities in creating employment abroad.