Qatar’s government has agreed on increasing the salary of Bangladeshi domestic helps working there to 1,200 riyals from the existing 900 riyals.
The matter was decided yesterday at a joint working group meeting between the countries at the capital’s Prabasi Kalyan Bhaban.
Brigadier Mohammed Ahmed M Al Atiq Al Dossary, additional director general of Qatar’s passport department, led the five-member Qatar delegation, while the Bangladesh team was led by Begum Shamsun Nahar, the acting secretary of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry.
The Qatar delegation expressed their eagerness to recruit skilled female workers from Bangladesh.
Ahead of FIFA World Cup 2022 and to ensure Qatar’s National Development Planning Vision 2030, Qatar now needs a large number of foreign workers to complete their ongoing massive development projects.
The delegation wants to recruit nurses, engineers, teachers, IT workers and salespersons from Bangladesh, according to a press release from the ministry.
The joint working group also agreed to increase security and other facilities for Bangladeshi workers in Qatar and reduce their migration cost.
The two sides also discussed the matter of introducing a hotline to ease and increase labour migration between the two countries.
