ILO Regional Symposium on "Deployment of workers overseas: A shared Responsibility'"

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ILO Regional Symposium on"Deployment of workers
overseas A shared Responsibility."

• PLENARY SESSION - 2
• Topic "Private Sector Initiative in Promoting
  Good Recruitment Practices."
• Presented by
• MR. GHULAM MUSTAFA
• President
• Bangladesh Association of International
  Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA)

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• BAIRA is the only Association of all the 786
  Private Sector
• Recruiting Agencies of Bangladesh. 
• The Primary objectives of BAIRA are
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• to look after the welfare of its members
• to promote good Recruitment Practices
• to ensure professionalism in the trade
• to promote safe migration and
• to ensure the rights privileges of the
  expatriates.

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• BAIRA has taken and shall take further
  initiative in promoting GOOD Recruitment
  Practices which may be summarized as follows
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• To procure genuine Demand Letters DIRECTLY from
  genuine Employers.
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• To enhance Negotiating Skill of the member
  Recruiting Agencies to have a better deal from
  employers.
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• To give priority to procure Demand Letters for
  Professionals, Skilled and Semi-skilled workers
  in place of less-skilled workers.
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• To encourage member Recruiting Agents to invest
  their earnings to set-up Technical Training
  Centers to develop skilled workforce for overseas
  employment.

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• To avoid middlemen in Demand Procurement.
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• To obtain attestation from our Mission abroad for
  verifying the genuineness of the Demand and of
  the employers.
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• To obtain Recruitment Permission from Bureau of
  Manpower, Employment Training (BMET) of the
  Government.
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• To avoid middlemen/sub-agents for recruitment.
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• To recruit workers from the Data Bank of workers
  administered by the BMET.

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• If needed, to advertise in the newspapers for
  direct recruitment.
• To notify similar category of expatriates, as far
  as possible, to recruit their ex-colleagues
  directly.
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• To give priority for recruitment of returnee
  migrants.
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• To recruit right workers for the right jobs.

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•  To extend Pre-Recruitment Briefing to the
  candidates about
• Terms Conditions of Employment.
• The country of employment.
• City/place of employment.
• Name of the Employer.
• Nature of job.
• Salary, overtime, allowances etc.
• Holidays, Vacations.
• Labor Laws, culture, customs, traditions, food
  style, language etc of the country of employment.
• Years of contract.
• Total expenses of migration.
• Time-frame needed for visa processing and
  expected date of departure.

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• Recruitment after verbal and/or Trade Test.
• To arrange medical check-up from a reliable
  Medical Check-up Clinic.
• Visa stamping.
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• To purchase air-ticket with confirmed seat.
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• To send workers to BMET for pre-departure
  Briefing.
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• To obtain Immigration Clearance from BMET.

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• To issue Money Receipt for each every
  transactions.
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• To confirm the Employers about the flight
  schedule of workers with solid arrangement to
  receive and transport the workers on arrival.
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• To brief the workers about traveling in an
  aircraft, on-arrival formalities etc.
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• Dispatch the workers and to depute one of the
  experienced staffs to assist the workers at the
  airport.
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• To send the final E-mail and Fax to the Employers
  about the Departure and Arrival time of workers
  in order to receive and transport the workers on
  arrival.

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• THANK YOU !