The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Though Bangladeshi workers are very hard working but most of them are unskilled and hence are getting lower salary and non-conducive working environment abroad, particularly in the Middle East.

This is what an owner of a company of the Kingdom of Bahrain revealed while addressing a press conference at a local hotel in Dhaka recently.

Abdul Jalil Salman Al Khamis, owner of a renowned company in Bahrain, who made a short visit to Dhaka last month, emphasised the need for overseas employment of skilled workers for getting good salaried-job and suitable working condition.

According to him the sufferings of the Bangladesh workers abroad mainly arise out of two reasons--obtaining Free Visa and employment in non-reputed companies. At the same time they should have the skill to perform duties for which they have been employed, he said.

Salman Khamis observed Bangladesh professionals and skilled workers are working abroad with the full satisfaction to their employees not only in Gulf countries but also in advanced and developed countries like UK, USA, Canada, Australia and other European counties.

He said, during his short stay in Dhaka, he visited a number of recruiting agencies including the Career Overseas Consultants Ltd.

He expressed his satisfaction over the performance of the agency saying that they religiously follow the recruitment criterion and provide in-built training to the recruits on several disciplines in their training institute before boarding them abroad and they send them to the well recognized reputed companies.

Replying to a question Salman Khamis said he was visiting Dhaka on a fact-finding mission for the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf countries.

He emphasised the need for overseas employment for skilled workers for getting good salaried-job and suitable working condition and suggested the government for giving the employment issue overseas a highest priority for the betterment of the country.

He said, after the visit he was going to Bahrain with the understanding to employ Bangladeshi skilled workers in Bahrain.