TENAGANITA welcomes efforts by Malaysia and Bangladesh to strengthen bilateral cooperation on labour migration and to improve transparency and affordability within recruitment systems (“Bangladesh urges M’sia to reopen labour market, take in more workers”, The Star, June 22; online at bit.ly/star_foreignwork).
However, any discussion about reopening or expanding labour recruitment must begin with an honest assessment of the thousands of Bangladeshi workers who are already in Malaysia and suffering the consequences of recruitment and placement failures.
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