Sime Darby charters flight for Bangladeshi workers amid labour crunch

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"...