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Steps taken to offset job cuts of migrant workers: Mosharraf

Staff Correspondent
Labour and Expatriates' Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said there are prospects of returning migrants from some major labour-receiving countries and called for vigilance and preparations to face any possible affects of global financial crisis.
"We, therefore, need to be vigilant and prepared to face any possible adverse affects of the crisis,” he said, citing that the number of people migrating abroad for jobs declined by 26.2 percent in July-February of 2008-09 compared to the same period of2007-08.
In Bangladesh, exports and remittances are the backbone of the economy, but since early this year, it has experienced a significant slowdown in certain export products, the minister said while speaking as the chief guest at a high-level forum titled 'Social dialogue and decent work: Our challenges'.
He noted that the government has taken and expanded a number of social safety-net programmes, including distribution of food 'grains and creating jobs through road maintenance programme and 100-day employment programme that promote decent work.
The forum was organised by International Labour Organisation (1ID) in collaboration with the Labour and Employment Ministry, Bangladesh Employers' Federation (BEF) and National Coordination Committee for Workers' Education (NCCWE) to mark ILO's 90th anniversary' and 36years in Bangladesh.
Mentioning that major economies are facing severe economic crisis with its adverse social impacts in the form of huge job losses and erosion । of incomes of the people at the bottom, the minis-ter saidl "We have to find a win-win situation-for-workers, employers and the country.” * *
Congratulating ILO for its completion of 90 years, Mosharraf said, "We remain committed to working with the ILO, our constituents and social partners to achieve decent work goals."
ILO Country Director for Bangladesh Panudda Boonpala said the world has witnessed a back-drop of rising unemployment, deteriorating conditions of work and the undermining of respect for rights at work, along with inequality, poverty and insecurity.
Stating that a global job summit will be organised as part of the International Labour Conference on June 15-16, she said it would bring together heads of the governments, ministers, and policymakers to discuss actions for economic stimulus packages, job creation and social protection.
Congratulating the new government for putting employment and protection of the rights and welfare of the people, including those of the employers and workers, at the centre of the policy, Boonpala said. "Bangladesh has ratified 33 ILO conventions and is one of the Asian countries which is actively implementing the 'Decent Work Country Programme'.”
In the keynote presentation, Bangladesh Economic Association President Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad said the inevitable implosion of neo-liberalism because of the greed and irresponsibility inherent in the process is leading to the ongoing global financial meltdown, which is bad news for all, particularly for the poor.
Economic growth is not enough, the governments and the international organisations have to work to make sure that equitable benefits go to everybody, he said.
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