20% of workers from Bangladesh return home ‘after a short while’

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is currently planning to recruit 7,000 Bangladeshi domestic workers per month. The largest share will be for the domestic help as the number of visas granted to the workers is about 5,000 per month since the resumption of recruiting housemaids from Bangladesh in April 2015.
Twenty percent of the Bangladeshi house helpers leave the Kingdom after only a short period because of complaints submitted to the Embassy of Bangladesh in Riyadh.
There are about 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers in the Kingdom and this number is expected to increase as Saudis recently began to ask for more domestic house helpers.
Most Saudi citizens complain of delays of more than six months in bringing domestic help to the Kingdom, while the same process in other Gulf States takes just a few weeks. The cost of recruiting house help has recently increased to reach more than SR20,000, a matter that fuels the black market.
Saudi citizens are still asking about the causes that hinder the recruitment of domestic workers. They demand the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and recruitment commissions to help end these problems and find the appropriate solutions as soon as possible.
The issue of recruitment of domestic workers has been a source of concern to Saudi society for over two years. Countries that export domestic workers have lost confidence in the Saudi recruitment agencies, as compared with those of neighboring countries.