Cost for Bangladeshi workers has to pay 4 times more to work in Singapore
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Bangladeshi workers have been the backbone of most of Singapore’s booming construction industry for at least 10 years now, but it looks like it may be changing.
Migrant workers from the landlocked nation, now typically have to pay 500,000 Bangladeshi Takas (~SGD $9,550) or more to agents to bring them into Singapore to work. The workers typically earn SGD $18-$20 a day, making it difficult or almost impossible to recoup the initial amount paid to the agents before their contract ends.
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