Bangladeshis get job at Saudi fair

More than 2,000 Bangladeshi workers found jobs with Saudi sponsors at a two-day job fair at Istiraha Al-Fakhr in Riyadh that concluded on Wednesday.
Contracting and construction companies, private establishments, fast food outlets, maintenance companies, restaurants and offices took part in the first day of the event.

Emdadul Haque, labour counsellor at the Bangladesh embassy, told Arab News that representatives from some 50 Riyadh-based companies were present to select their prospective employees.
“We played a mediation role between the employer and the employees
and we provided the platform for job negotiations,” he said, describing the event as highly successful.
The job categories that were negotiated at the fair included office
assistants, plumbers, drivers, electricians and cleaners.
“The two parties discussed the salaries for respective jobs, the mode
of Iqama transfer and regularisation of residency status,” Haque said.
A total of 166,480 Bangladesh expatriates took their processed documents from the country's missions in Riyadh and Jeddah.
The amnesty that will end on July 3 allows irregular foreign workers to have their status legalised or return home without facing any penalty.