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Mauritius to send back RMG workers

Gives no reason for sacking several thousand Bangladeshi workers; ministry still in the dark

Staff Correspondent
The Mauritian government has decided to send back, by the end of this year, several thousand Bangladeshi workers working mostly in the African nation's readymade garment and textile industries.
The authorities however gave no official reason for the decision, but textile companies of the island country said they were asked by the authorities to sack Bangladeshi workers and repatriate them to their homeland, according to a recent report of Africa News, a Port Louis based online newspaper.
"I am persuaded that the government will reconsider its decision, the industrial sector needs those workers," Bangladeshi Honorary Consul in Mauritius Ganny Joonas however said.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh is totally unaware of the Mauritian decision.
"No, we have no information about sending back of workers from Mauritius. Rather 1 know, that country will hire more workers from Bangladesh," Expatriates'Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister of Bangladesh Khandker Mosharraf Hossain told The Daily Star.
He said he will check the authenticity of the news immediately.
Bangladesh sent around 12,000 workers to Mauritius since 1992, mostly in readymade garment and textile industries.
The African nation's decision comes when thousands of Bangladeshi workers reportedly lost jobs in Malaysia, Singapore, and Dubai. Malaysia cancelled work visas of 55,000 workers early this year. Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) President Ghulam Mustafa said for the last several months Mauritius has not been issuing work visas to Bangladeshis, although employers of that country prefer Bangladeshi workers.
"Sure, if Mauritius takes a policy not to hire foreign workers, it may take such a decision. But, I would appeal to tire authorities of Mauritius not to send back the workers before completion of their job contracts, considering humanitarianissues," headded.
Reza Uteem, a Mauritian lawyer defending the interest of the foreign workers, called his government's decision 'irrational' and 'in breach of the human right declarations' to which Mauritius is a signatory, reported African News.
Chair of Textile Manufacturers and Allied Workers Union in Mauritius Ally Faizal Beegun asked the country's Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam to consider the humanitarian aspect of the decision, as well as the issue of the country's textile industry's survival.
"A number of those workers are ready to commit suicide instead of going back home empty handed," hesaid, adding that most of them have not even been paid for six montlis.
About 20,000 foreigners from many countries including China, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka work in the textile and clothing industries of Mauritius.