FMT:
Stranded Bangladeshi workers get jobs, thanks to labour dept
A ministry source says they have been taken in by a new firm which also pays their salaries according to the minimum wage.
Some of the 120 Bangladeshi workers, who had been left stranded after they arrived four months ago.
PETALING JAYA: The estimated 120 Bangladeshi migrant workers who had been left without jobs since their arrival legally four months ago have been given jobs and their wages, thanks to the intervention of the labour department.
A ministry source said they have been successfully employed by a new company, which was also paying their salaries according to the minimum wage.
“The human resources minister will give details of their employment soon,” the source told FMT.
FMT reported today that the frustrated workers gathered at the Bangladeshi High Commission yesterday to demand the mission’s intervention to resolve their woes.
A spokesman for the workers, who wished to be identified as Abraham, had said they had not been given jobs upon their arrival in February or paid any allowance in the last four months.
“They came here and their accommodation is not appropriate. Some of the places they were asked to stay at do not have proper sanitation and facilities. Their situation is very bad.
“Besides this, they have no jobs, no money, and no food to survive,” he told FMT.
Abraham said as many as 600 Bangladeshi migrant workers came into the country through four different companies in the belief that they would get jobs as housekeepers in Genting Highlands.
Yesterday, the labour department said it would sanction firms and withdraw licences from recruitment agencies involved in hiring migrant workers who found themselves stranded without jobs after arrival.
It also promised to act against recruitment companies found to have misused government quotas and licences for hiring migrant workers.
It is understood that some companies are already under investigation and the findings will be announced soon.
PETALING JAYA: The estimated 120 Bangladeshi migrant workers who had been left without jobs since their arrival legally four months ago have been given jobs and their wages, thanks to the intervention of the labour department.
A ministry source said they have been successfully employed by a new company, which was also paying their salaries according to the minimum wage.
“The human resources minister will give details of their employment soon,” the source told FMT.
FMT reported today that the frustrated workers gathered at the Bangladeshi High Commission yesterday to demand the mission’s intervention to resolve their woes.
A spokesman for the workers, who wished to be identified as Abraham, had said they had not been given jobs upon their arrival in February or paid any allowance in the last four months.
“They came here and their accommodation is not appropriate. Some of the places they were asked to stay at do not have proper sanitation and facilities. Their situation is very bad.
“Besides this, they have no jobs, no money, and no food to survive,” he told FMT.
Abraham said as many as 600 Bangladeshi migrant workers came into the country through four different companies in the belief that they would get jobs as housekeepers in Genting Highlands.
Yesterday, the labour department said it would sanction firms and withdraw licences from recruitment agencies involved in hiring migrant workers who found themselves stranded without jobs after arrival.
It also promised to act against recruitment companies found to have misused government quotas and licences for hiring migrant workers.
It is understood that some companies are already under investigation and the findings will be announced soon.
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