Minister: Migrant workers need access to quality services

Minister of Economic Development, Mohamed Saeed has commented that migrant workers need to be provided the quality of services that should be available in a mature community.

Minister Saeed made the comment during the inauguration of “Dissemination Forum on Anti-Trafficking in the Maldives” at Hotel Jen this Wednesday.

He appealed for protection of the rights of migrant workers, and commented that if the Maldivian community was immature, it needed to be made mature.

He said that the services migrant workers in Maldives were accessible to needed to be of the quality required in a mature community.

“Our migrant workers, their rights need to be protected and their salaries and the services provided to them need to be the quality of services and resources available in a mature community. If we have an immature community, it needs to be put an end to. This is the goal of this government,” said Minister Saeed.

He said that President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom came to office with three major concepts; economic reform, doubling Gross Domestic Income, and expanding the Maldivian job market.

He said that the Maldivian job market had been expanded like never before, and that

Maldivians were being provided vocational training to get them ready for the workplace.

“What we are trying to do is to provide training to Maldivians with the expansion in the job market. To make our own resources as acquainted with these jobs as possible,” said Minister Saeed.

He said that anti-human trafficking was not such an unfamiliar subject in Maldives over the past three years. And said that the Anti-Human Trafficking Act was the first piece of legislation ratified by President Yameen after he came to power.

The one-day forum, “Dissemination Forum on Anti-Trafficking in the Maldives” is designed to decimate information regarding anti-human trafficking policies compiled after the ratification of Anti-Human Trafficking Act in December, 2013.