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A survey conducted by Action Aid Bangladesh has found that around half of the Rana Plaza survivors have been left unable to work.

A research of the garment sector in India, Bangladesh and Cambodia, commissioned in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster that led to scores of workers’ deaths, has revealed the poor wage and working conditions prevailing in the sector.

Despite notable progress on closing gender gaps over the past 20 years, women have less access to jobs, are more likely to take low-quality employment, and face barriers to management positions, a United Nations labor report has found.

Language barriers, poor living conditions, restrictions on movement and low pay, often below the minimum wage, are some of the problems plaguing migrant workers in Bengaluru’s garment factories, a new report states.

A CEO from one of the world’s top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh earns in his entire life, non-profit organization Oxfam International revealed in a report on Monday.

The recent research note released by International Labour Organization (ILO) presents the latest employment and wage estimates within the garment, textile and footwear (GTF) industry of 12 major garment-producing countries in developing Asia, where Bangladesh was recorded having the lowest gender pay gap compared to others in the study perimeter.

The World Bank published the Bangladesh jobs diagnostic report last month which "presents the characteristics and constraints of the labor market in Bangladesh, identifies the objectives of the jobs agenda, and proposes a policy framework to progress toward them." The report studies the various factors that affect the relationships between supply- and demand-side and influence creation, quality, and inclusion outcomes."

Oxfam has released a new report that reveals only four per cent of the price Australians spend on clothing is paid to the factory workers who made it, predominantly in Asia. That equates to 40¢ from a $10 shirt, even if the worker is paid the legal minimum wage in countries like China and Indonesia. The report released Sunday, titled What She Makes: Power and Poverty in the Fashion Industry, shows that while many leading and iconic Australian fashion brands are enjoying boost in revenue, the workers making their clothes, the vast majority of whom are women, are trapped in a cycle of poverty.

Published in the ILO website Young people today face a difficult process in seeking to enter the world of work. The global recession has left its mark and, after falling for some years, youth unemploy‑ ment rates are once again ...

Bullet points There are a total of 3856 factories consisting of around 3.6 million workers. Over 98% of total RMG enterprises are located in four districts including Dhaka (37.9%), Gazipur (28.9%), Chittagong (16.1%) and Narayanganj (14.7%) Reasons being better infrastructural ...