Bangladeshi labour exporters have called for the removal of conditions set for sending workers to Malaysia, describing them as “unreasonable and deliberately imposed”. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment instructed Bangladesh to request Malaysia to list all recruiting agencies capable of meeting the 10 conditions required for sending workers. They said: “From 1991 to 2016, we sent millions of workers to Malaysia across different sectors without any conditions. Until 2016, under an agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia, 10 designated agencies sent workers. They demanded the withdrawal of these conditions and proposed that government agency BOESL be made the main agent, giving all recruiting agencies the opportunity to send workers.
