Some of Malaysia's largest palm oil producers are not hiring workers from Bangladesh because of concerns over exploitative practices during recruitment, companies and labour consultants say.
Planters in the world's second-largest palm oil producer have in recent years stepped up efforts to implement ethical recruitment processes and revamp labour standards after the United StatesMigrant workers, especially from Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal, make up about 80% of the workforce on Malaysia's labour-reliant estates.
The Malaysian government suspended all hiring from Bangladesh in 2018 after allegations of corruption in the process. Despite a new labour agreement between the two countries coming into force last year, three plantation companies say their firms have not resumed hiring Bangladeshi workers. "The main reason was due to a high rate of abscondment among the Bangladesh workers as they were not aware that they were going to work in plantation estates," IOI PlantationA senior executive with another company cited a lack of transparency in the recruitment process and high recruitment fees among workers from Bangladesh., the world's largest palm oil producer, said it stopped hiring from Bangladesh in 2016.
The International Labour Organisation ranks deception and debt bondage stemming from large recruitment fees among its indicators of "forced labour".
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