Cabinet okays expats welfare, overseas employment draft policy
Dhaka: The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Policy incorporating six policy directives to ensure and encourage safe migration as well as protect migrants and their family members, reports UNB.
The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the draft policy has been formulated in line with the international laws on migration after reorganising the existing short policy to this end framed in 2006.
He said the Policy has given a special focus on six policy directions like encouraging and ensuring safe migration, protection of migrant workers and their family members, ensuring facilities and welfare of the migrant workers, migration of female workers, associating migration with national development and proper planning for labour migration.