A total of 84 workers are scheduled to fly to Malaysia on Monday to join work in the country’s plantation sector, said Md Ziaul Huq, a director of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).
The workers, who each needed a migration cost of around Tk30,000, will work in Malaysia under a government-to-government arrangement. They are set to leave the country on a Malaysian Airlines flight on Monday at 12:40pm.
Officials at the BMET said a total of 88 visas were granted for the workers, but four workers refused to go.
An official, wishing to remain anonymous, said the concerned deputy commissioners tried to convince the workers who refused, but the workers said they were engaged in other jobs.
“It is embarrassing for us if the selected workers refused to go as the employers in Malaysia feel annoyed,” the official said.
Earlier, a total of 360 workers migrated to Malaysia to work under the government-to-government arrangement.
