Twenty three Bangladeshi workers, who were facing trouble in workplace at a textile company in Sudan, returned home this morning.
They reached at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka by an Air Arabia flight around 11:00am.
The workers are among the 58 Bangladeshis, who were working at Textile and Investment, a joint venture company run by Sudanese and Turkish nationals in a town near Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
They earlier urged the Bangladesh government to bring them back home citing that the company denied them to give due payment and provide better accommodation, said Mamun Mia, one of the returnee.
The migrant workers were forced to work there by the company authorities without the due payment, the workers alleged.
They went to Sudan in January this year to work as operators for the company. Â
Eleven out of the 58 Bangladeshi workers returned home in June.
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In Sudan, they had protested their company’s reluctance to give them due payment and provide them with better accommodation.
Each of the workers paid Tk 2.6 lakh to two Bangladeshi recruiting agencies -- Al-Purbasha Enterprise and Gulam Rabbi International -- for managing their jobs in the company with promise of a monthly salary Tk 32,000.
But the company in June paid each of them only Tk 8,000 to 10,000 per month, the returnees claimed.
The workers submitted a written letter to the management on June 21 and gave an ultimatum to quit their jobs. The management again took 10 days to consider their demand.
But on June 25, some security persons of the company came to their labour camp in Sudan and warned them of stern action if they further tries to wage demonstration.
At one stage of altercation, the security persons beat up some of the workers, the workers alleged.
"We could return home after Bangladesh government forced the two recruiting agencies to negotiate the matter with the textile company of Sudan," Mamun said.