The Star | 15 August 2018 PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate fraudulently running the Immigration Department’s rehiring programme has been busted, after earning some RM2.2mil in profit. “The syndicate has been operating through a company called Growing Global Multiple Business Sdn Bhd, which is registered as a travel agency. “The company offered rehiring services to foreign workers, […]
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By Rahimy Rahim The Star 15 Aug 2018 KUALA LUMPUR: The government will create a single system to hire foreign workers without differentiating the source country, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. “Bangladesh, Nepal or others; they will use the same system,” the Prime Minister said at a press conference after chairing a meeting on foreign
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By Sharif Khiam and Ali Nufael Benar News | 16 August 2018 Bangladesh has welcomed Malaysia’s decision to end a monopoly on recruitment of workers from the South Asian nation, saying the new measure would cut costs and allow fair competition. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been reviewing policies of the previous government since taking
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The Daily Star 16 August 2018 Malaysia considers allowing all the licensed agents to help Bangladeshi workers get jobs in the Southeast Asian country. The plan comes after the new Malaysian government in late June suspended a syndicate of 10 Bangladeshi agents, all authorised in 2016, for alleged irregularities in manpower recruitment process. Malaysian Prime
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Borneo Post | 15 August 2018 KUALA LUMPUR: An independent committee to coordinate the overall policies and management of foreign workers will be set up, says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr Mahathir said the committee would be chaired by a top government officer with former judges and secretaries-general and the Institute of Labour
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New Age Bangladesh | 14 August 2018 Malaysia’s new government of prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad reopened up the process of hiring workers from Bangladesh to all the recruiting agencies after suspending the cartel of 10 agencies in Bangladesh. Mahathir announced his government’s decision at a news conference, Kuala Lumpur daily The Star reported on
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By: MD Owasim Uddin Bhuyan New Age Bangladesh | 10 August 2018 Over five million smart cards that have been distributed among the outgoing migrant workers by Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training since its commencement in 2010 remain useless after departures of the workers, said officials concerned. Migration experts and migrant rights activists requested
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New Age Bangladesh | 13 August 2018 At least 270 Bangladeshi workers, who paid over Malaysian Ringgit 1.8 million to an agent for securing valid working permits as part of the Immigration Department’s rehiring programme, have claimed that they were duped. One of the victims, Imran Haq Uzzal, has said that he and some of
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The Star Online | 23 June 2018 SEPANG: Bangladeshi workers who arrived here recently said their families made great sacrifices to raise the RM20,000 each to find jobs in Malaysia. The workers told The Star that their families sold cattle and farmland, and even borrowed money at high interest rates to secure employment here. Even
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By: Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan New Age Bangladesh | 3 August 2018 A Bangladeshi housekeeper is required to pay $1,800 equivalent to Tk 1. 51 lakh as the cost of migration to Hong Kong, though employers bear the cost of migration. Recruiting agencies in Bangladesh illegally realize the migration costs for ‘our housemaids’ migrant right
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