Dhaka, July 12 -- Some 2.5 lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers might be forced to leave Kuwait after parliament approved expatriates quota Bill seeking to gradually slash the number of foreign workers in the oil-rich Gulf country.
The draft law has proposed only 3 percent quota for Bangladeshi migrant workers.
Kuwait's National Assembly's legal and legislative committee on Wednesday said a draft law calling to replace all expat employees in government jobs is in line with the Constitution and sent it to the concerned committee for further discussion. The bill is part of a series of draft laws proposed by MPs to reduce the number of expats in the country, who form 70 per cent of Kuwait's population of 4.8 million.
The move coincided with Kuw...