Staff Reporter : Recruiting agencies from both countries will take full responsibility of migrant Bangladeshi female workers to Saudi Arabia,’ Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Md Salim Reza on Monday said it.
“Authorities in Saudi Arabia have assured that they will take necessary steps to ensure the safety of Bangladeshi female workers in their country,” he said it while addressing at a press briefing at Probashi Kallyan Bhaban in the capital.
Reza said the third joint technical committee meeting was held between Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry and Saudi Ministry of Labour and Social Development on November 27 in Riyadh.
Earlier, recruiting agencies had responsibility to oversee migrant female workers only at first three months, but now it will take complete tenure’s responsibility- so long they have to stay in the country as per the meeting’s decision, the Secretary said.
In the last four years, over 5,000 Bangladeshi women have returned home from Saudi Arabia, bringing allegations of torture against their Saudi employers.
Some 1,500 women have returned home from Saudi Arabia in 2018 alone, according to BRAC Migration Centre.
Additional secretaries of the ministry, Ahmed Munirus Salehin, Nazibul Islam and Sabiha Parveen, Joint Secretaries Zahid Hossain, and Md Sarwar Alam, among others, were present.
