Saudi Arabia to hire 120,000 workers from Bangladesh;

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Picture for representational purpose onlyA week after lifting a seven-year employment ban, Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum with Bangladesh to hire some 120,000 workers in a year from the latter. A 19-member Saudi team, led by Ahmed Bin Fahd Al Fuhaid, deputy minister for the labour ministry's international affairs department, visited Bangladesh and held talks with Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Bangladesh's Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister, and other government officials, Xinhua reported.
It was reported that the minimum salary would be 800 Saudi Riyals (about 16,600 taka) for domestic helpers. However minimum wages for other 11 professions were yet to be fixed.

 

 

Hossain had earlier said some 10,000 Bangladeshis will get employment in Saudi Arabia every month.

The country will initially recruit maids, drivers and housekeepers from Bangladesh, he said.
Fuhaid told reporters that Saudi Arabia issued around 1.3 million new visas last year for recruiting foreign workers.
"We still need many workers," he said after signing the deal.
Saudi employers will bear the full migration cost of the workers, said officials. Currently some 1.3 million Bangladeshis are working in Saudi Arabia.

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