Sime Darby charters flight for Bangladeshi workers amid labour crunch

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Sime Darby Plantation brought back more than 100 migrant workers from Bangladesh yesterday, as part of a pilot scheme to overcome labour shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a freeze on the recruitment of new foreign workers.Sime Darby told Reuters in an email that the scheme was being "conducted in collaboration with the Malaysian government to put return-to-work plans in motion in a controlled and safe manner".Malaysia relies on some two million documented foreign workers - mainly from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal - to work in factory and plantation jobs which are shunned by locals who regard them as dirty, dangerous and difficult.Many companies are facing a labour shortage as a result of border closures a year ago to stem the spread of the coronavirus and a ban since the middle of last year on hiring new foreign labour in order to protect jobs for M…