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Many trade union leaders are outsiders: Tofail
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday criticised a section of trade union leaders who lead the apparel sector but are not employed in the garment sector, the Daily Star reported.
“They are outsiders. I am sorry to say that the outside labour leaders talk against the interest of Bangladesh to their foreign partners,” the report quoted the minister as saying.
Bangladesh set to launch its own garment worker safety initiative
Bangladesh textile and apparel companies have reportedly drawn up new proposals to launch their own factory inspection and remediation initiative – similar to those currently been run by overseas interests such as the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Safety and the Alliance for Worker Safety, Ecotextile reported.
The new move to strengthen workplace safety in the Bangladesh apparel sector via a local organisation is consistent with the Bangaldesh Accord’s own objectives, which hopes that a Bangladesh-based regulatory body will take over its work by 2021, the report added.
Pre-Eid labour unrest may be brewing in 385 garment units
Some 385 industrial units across the country have been identified as ‘vulnerable’ to labour unrest over the payment of wages and festival allowances ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, Financial Express reported.
Some 300 of those units are readymade garment (RMG) factories, mostly small and medium in size, while other units included jute mills, furniture, plastic, home textile, dying and accessories, and steel mills, the report added.
45 garment factories may miss deadline
All garment workers might not receive their salaries and allowances by August 24, the deadline set by the ministry of labour and employment for apparel factory owners to clear their payroll for Eid-ul-Azha, the Daily Star reported.
At least 45 factories, mostly small and medium, are at risk of failing to pay their workers even before Eid-ul-Azha, said Sirajul Islam Rony, garment workers’ representative at the minimum wage board, the report added.
