Bringing in foreign labourers to be allowed after expat issue resolved: Minister Ihusan

Minister of Homeland Security and Technology Ali Ihusan has said that issuing permits to the public to bring in new labourers from Bangladesh will be recommenced only after the larger issues surrounding expatriate workers in the country are resolved.

After a four year ban on bringing in more workers from Bangladesh, the incumbent government allowed a number of labourers to be brought in under a special permit for the purposes of working on a high number of ongoing projects. However, permits to bring in Bangladeshi workers are still not being issued in general to the public, or to private companies.