19 Notable observations of JWT Bangladesh report (August 2021) "Addressing systemic challenges of wage theft: Bangladeshi COVID returnees from the Gulf" by C R Abrar, Inzamul Haque and Nazmul Haque (Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit) A total of 1,160 returnee workers in 45 districts were interviewed by seven member organizations of Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM) .  33 percent of returnees were in the countries of destination for more than five years, and 40 percent between two to five years.  As many as 74 percent respondents stated that they had to return home as their employers wanted them to do so. The rest 26 percent returned mainly for three reasons: availed amnesty, were sent from detention or opted to return home for fear of COVID-19. Termination from work (9.8 percent) and lack of employment (22.5 percent) were the two most important factors that contributed to their decision to return home.  15.2 percent reported that their visas had expired and their employers refused to extend them. In as many as 6.7 percent cases the employers cancelled the visas that were still valid. 1.5 percent of respondents noted they were in irregular status and as they were facing difficulty in securing employment, they availed the general amnesty offered by the government of the destination country. 8.4 percent of the returnee migrants stated that they were in detention prior to their repatriation that was organized by the host government.  Lack of information was cited to be the single most important reason by the returnee migrants (35 percent) for not filing complaints. Fear of reprisal from the employers was cited by 24 percent as reason for not reporting. Another 20 percent of returnee migrants stated they did not file complaints as they had no reason to believe that their dues could be recovered. 10 percent felt that they did not want to jeopardize their hope to re-migrate to the country by filing such complaints. The rest 11 percent assigned a range of other reasons. Disclaimer: The figures, statistics within the report are based upon the limited documentation of cases submitted to the JFWT platform or separately to MFA. It does not intend to implicate any country, government, industry, employer, etc.