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Published on the ILO website The 106th International Labour Conference  (ILC) closed following two weeks of deliberations on key world of work issues, including the promotion of peace and stability in countries emerging from conflict, strengthening labour migration governance and ...

Published on the ILO website on 13, June 2017 On 13 June 2017, the Government of India deposited with the International Labour Office the instruments of ratification of the two fundamental ILO Conventions concerning the elimination of child labour, the ...

Members in plenary of European Parliament will adopt a Resolution tabled by the Committee on International Trade (INTA) on “The State-of-Play of the implementation of the Sustainability Compact in Bangladesh” on Wednesday (June 14). Here are the five things you ...

Members in plenary of European Parliament will adopt a Resolution tabled by INTA on “The State-of-Play of the implementation of the Sustainability Compact in Bangladesh” on June 14, according to the European Parliament website. Sustainability Compact is an EU-driven initiative ...

Bangladesh must improve labor rights to avoid temporarily losing the generalized system of preferences (GSP) benefit, the European Union said in a letter to Bangladesh government. Generalized system of preferences (GSP) benefit allows Bangladesh duty-free export to the 28-nation economic ...

Published on the ILO website on 5, June 2017 The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, has told delegates that nothing will more clearly distinguish the first hundred years of the ILO’s history from the second “than ...

This year budget is likely to be Tk four lakh crore in size — which is 26 percent bigger than the one for the outgoing fiscal year, English language Daily Star reported. The Finance Minister AMA Muhith will present the ...

Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry is facing new challenges. While owners have to make a huge investment for remediation and other compliance issues, their competitors are trying to increase their international apparel market share by technological up-gradation and market diversification. Although ...

Post-Rana Plaza Developments in Bangladesh: Towards Building a Responsible Supply Chain in the Apparel Sector provides an objective update about the progress made in terms of the various initiatives undertaken in view of the Rana Plaza tragedy of April 2013. ...

As a signatory to the ‘Sustainability Compact’ with the EU and ILO, Bangladesh must ensure improved workers’ rights and better industrial relations in the country’s RMG sector. Conducting social dialogues between workers and entrepreneurs on exercising freedom of association with ...