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KL widens scope for Bangladeshis

3 more sectors to be opened for job

Belal Hossain Biplob
Malaysia may recruit Bangladeshi workers in the construction, manufacturing and service sectors under state arrangements, in addition to the ongoing recruitment in the plantation sector, says Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
A delegation from Dhaka is to fly to Kuala Lumpur to discuss the issue with the Malaysian authorities on July 7 or 8, said Mantu Kumar Biswas, labour counsellor at the high commission, by phone.
Employers in Malaysia have expressed their interest in hiring people from Bangladesh, sources said.
Private recruiting agencies in Bangladesh, meanwhile, have requested the expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry to tap the demand of the Malaysian employers.
At present, they do not have any role in sending out workers to Malaysia as the ministry kept them off the procedure while signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Malaysian government in November 2012.
Bangladesh, however, will engage the agencies in the recruitment process after the expansion of the Malaysian job market, said Expatriates' Welfare Minister Khandker MosharrafHossain.
"We want to increase the pace of sending our people under the [government to government] arrangements. Besides, we will urge employers to hire workers from our country for other sectors," said Expatriates' Welfare Secretary KhondakerShowkat Hossain.
Employment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia was banned for around four years from 2009, due to anomalies in the recruitment done through private recruiting agencies.
The ban was withdrawn in 2012 before the signing of the MoU.
The expatriates' welfare ministry at the time set a target of sending a minimum of 10,000 workers to Malaysia a year, but it could send only some 5,000 workers from April last year.
The target could not be achieved due to errors in visa applications.
The Bureau of Manpower,
Employment and Training (BMET) submitted documents of over 9,500 jobseekers to the Malaysian authorities between April and December last year.
But the authorities sent back the documents of some 7,000 workers after they had identified errors in their names and photographs attached to the visa applications, said Begum Shamsun Nahar, director general of BMET.
BMET corrected the mistakes and sent the documents again to the employers, causing a delay in the visa arrangements, she added.
It has resolved the technical problems and thus simplified the visa procedure, Nahar said.
Meanwhile, Malaysia witnesses an increasing demand for foreign workers in various sectors, especially construction.
Master Builders Association Malaysia recently said it was facing problems in completing the projects in the pipeline as the registration of foreign workers took a longtime.
"It's not like we haven't faced manpower shortages before, but it is more serious now considering the surge in new projects we are getting. We are dependent on foreign labour to get jobs done," The Star, an English newspaper of Malaysia, quoted Matthew Tee, president of the association, as saying.
He urged the Malaysian government to consider extending stay permits of the foreign workers after their three-year visa expires, since they will be skilled enough to support the industry bythen.
Tee also requested it to ease the recruitment system.