Desk Report: Malaysia considers allowing all the licensed agents to help Bangladeshi workers get jobs in the Southeast Asian country. Reports the daily star
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 Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the syndicate has caused a “monopolistic situation” with some of its members charging as high as RM 20,000 (Tk 4 lakh) from each job seeker, Malaysian newspaper The Star reported on Tuesday.
The agents were “merely fly-by-night companies” created solely to rake in money by playing middleman between the workers and their prospective employers in Malaysia.
“So, we want to open up to all agents there to allow competition,” Mahathir told journalists at a press conference after chairing a meeting on foreign workers at the parliament.
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