M Humayun Kabir: The government will issue show cause notices to the 10 recruiting agencies for their alleged monopoly and syndication in recruitment of Bangladeshi workers for Malaysia, said Nurul Islam, Expatriate’s Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister.
“We are collecting data and based on that we will take action,” he said while talking to journalists at the ministry yesterday, reports The Daily Star.
The Bangladeshi labour market has not come to a complete closure in the country following the government’s move, Nurul Islam while replying to a query on the news run on media that the Malaysian government decided to suspend the recruitment of Bangladeshis.
The minister said that Malaysian government is bringing a systematic change in the recruitment procedure of overseas employees.
“Once they make the changes, the labour market will be open for Bangladeshis.”
He said that the 25,000 to 30,000 Bangladeshi workers, who have recently completed the process of migrating to Malaysia, will be allowed to enter the Southeast Asian country.
Malaysia has suspended the current recruitment system under the Government to Government (G-to-G) Plus mechanism that allowed only 10 Bangladeshi recruiting agents to send workers to Malaysia.
On August 21, Malaysian home ministry said the government decided to suspend the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers through SPPA (Sistem Pengambilan Pekerja Asing), an online system operated by a private Malaysian company, with effect from September 1.
It said any further decision on the matter would be made based on minister-level discussions between the two countries.