By Mandeep Singh
COMPANIES need to come forward to provide up-to-date information on their expatriate workers to labour authorities, it was reiterated yesterday.
With a little more than a month remaining for the July 1 deadline for companies to “cleanse” their data, only about 20 per cent of the expatriate workers have been registered so far, said Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) chief executive Ali Radhi.
With reference to Mrs June M Al Saffar letter (GDN, May 25) “How much cleansing?”, we would like to clear everyone’s confusion between the employee’s enrolment and the data cleansing processes.
There are general misconceptions that once employees have been enrolled, they are automatically cleansed, or that we need the employees again in order to complete the data cleansing!
By MANDEEP SINGH
MANAMA
SMALL contracting companies who depend on cheap labour will be hit the hardest following a government decision to ban Bangladeshis from working in Bahrain, industry officials said yesterday.
By geoffrey bew
THE Bangladesh government yesterday said it would not stand in the way of Bahrain’s decision to stop issuing visas to its nationals.
The news of the ban has sent shockwaves through the more than 90,000-strong Bangladeshi community in Bahrain, say officials.
By BASMA MOHAMMED
BAHRAIN’s decision to no longer issue work permits to Bangladeshis has prompted a mixed response from the Bahraini and expat communities.
The GDN yesterday spoke to people in the Manama suq and an area of Salmaniya known as the “Bangladesh colony”, where many illegal workers are known to live.
