Tag Archives: Bangladesh garment sector

CPD-FES Publication Industrial Safety in the RMG Sector in the Post-Accord-Alliance Era Is the Institutionalisation Process Slowing Down? Industrial safety in the readymade garments (RMG) sector has been passing a critical phase with a lack of proper coordination, monitoring and ...

Authors: Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Fahmida Khatun, Tamim Ahmed, Kithmina Hewage and Anjana Pathirana The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to the global apparel value chain and has delayed its recovery in the medium term. Innovative strategies and tools ...

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April 25, 2018 marked the fifth year anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. The entire nation and the world commemorated the tragic day on which the commercial building, which housed three separate garments factories, collapsed in less than 30 seconds, resulting in the untimely death of over 1,100 workers.

The number of female employees fell 13.10 percent to 5.07 million in Bangladesh last year compared to 2013 mainly because of closure of subcontracting businesses in the garment sector, according to a new survey.

Energy efficiency is all the rage these days. A much less talked about issue is water efficiency and sustainability at industrial level. This is where projects like the International Finance Corporation (IFC) PaCT (partnership for cleaner textile) come in because the apparel industry account for about 80 percent of the country's exports.

The government has asked all factories from the National Initiative (NI) under the Tripartite Plan of Action to complete their remediation process by April 2018. As part of the government’s initiative to ensure RMG factory safety after the Rana Plaza disaster, the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) held a meeting  with the factory owners from the NI to evaluate the progress of their remediation in making a safer workplace on Sunday.

A cabinet member on Monday proposed formation of a wage board to increase workers’ wages in the apparel sector, last revised in 2013, as the government employees’ pay structures were hiked two years back.

The Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC), formed to monitor workplace safety in the garment sector, should be independent and credible so that it can take sound decisions to avert further industrial accidents. “If there is a good system in place and if the retailers and brands continue sourcing from Bangladesh, it is expected that there will not be any disaster in the garment sector,” said Jim Moriarty, executive director of the Alliance, the factory inspection platform of 28 North American retailers.

Fraudulence involving buying houses has continued to surface with some British and local ones being accused of cheating five Bangladeshi garment factories of $3 million. The accused closed their Dhaka offices and have been absconding for the past one year, one of the victims told The Daily Star yesterday.