Govt team off to KSA to oversee female expats’ condition
The government today sent an inter-ministerial team to Saudi Arabia to oversee overall work and security conditions of Bangladeshi female workers there.
The five-member team led by Jabed Ahmed, additional secretary at Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry, will look into the female workers’ complaints against their employers and the brokers, said officials at the ministry.
“We will talk to our women to know their problems at their working places. Then, we will sit with employers’ groups and the Saudi government officials to resolve the issues,” Jabed Ahmed told The Daily Star.
More than 60,000 female workers migrated to Saudi Arabia between April last year and July 24 this year following an agreement signed by Dhaka and Riyadh in February, 2015.
But, some females complained against their employers and brokers for compelling them to excess works, irregular wages, and different types of abuses including physical and sexual.
Some 1,500 females have returned from Saudi and most of them came back after becoming victims of abuse, said some returnees.
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