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Kuwait blacklists 26 Lankan job agencies

by Ananda Kannangara

Kuwait on Friday blacklisted the membership of 26 Sri Lankan foreign employment agencies for sending Lankan workers to their country through fraudulent means.

"The decision taken by the Kuwait Government on these employment agencies had not only affected the country's foreign employment market but also a large number of our workers who have already signed job contracts with these agencies," Chairman, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) Susantha Fernando told the Daily News yesterday.

He said that the Bureau has initiated a special programme under the directive of Employment and Labour Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe to eliminate various forms of irregularities very often resorted to by local employment agencies in the future.

It is said that the membership of one employment agency owned by a former Director attached to the SLBFE is also included among these 26 blacklisted agencies.

However Fernando said that these blacklisted employment agencies are still eligible to send workers to other countries other than Kuwait until the Kuwait Government gives them the green light revoking its decision.

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