Lebanon may take more Bangladeshi workers
Lebanon considers employing more Bangladeshi male workers in construction and cleaning sectors, a delegation that visited the Middle Eastern country said yesterday.
“They expressed keen interests when we talked of our training facilities and skills, especially in construction,” said Khorshed Alam Chowdhury, director general of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training.
Chowdhury, a member of the delegation, told The Daily Star that around 30,000 Bangladeshis have so far gone to Lebanon, but very few were male.
“Actually, Lebanon had no idea of Bangladeshi workers' skills. As we asked them to hire our workers and mentioned their skills, they said they would immediately examine the issue.”
Besides, he said, Lebanese leaders assured of regularising the Bangladeshi workers who were overstaying there. But Chowdhury failed to say surely the number of such workers.
“A worker with an expired work visa will only be allowed to be regular, but not those who went on visit visas,” he added.
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