Tag Archives: Bangladesh garment workers

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 ...

Vulnerability, Resilience and Recovery in Readymade Garment (RMG) Enterprises of Bangladesh An Assessment of Impact and Implications of the COVID Pandemic The export-oriented apparels sector of Bangladesh has been struggling to recover from the COVID-19 related challenges. After the dip in ...

Since the last revision of RMG minimum wages, workers’ living expenses have increased by 85%. Non-food consumption of workers increased significantly compared to their expenses on food.

The process to fix minimum wages for the readymade garment sector is going on at a slow pace, much to the annoyance of rights groups and workers, labour leaders said.

The government has decided to offer assistance for treatment of sick readymade garment workers and education of workers’ children from the RMG sector Central Welfare Fund.

Majority of the readymade garment workers are out of the formal banking system and deprived of wage digitisation due to payment of their wages in cash, said speakers at a discussion on Thursday.

Labour leaders say unions need to be independent of foreign funding and NGOs and must unite to fight for their rights

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.

When Ayesha Akhter walks into the factory where she works, the supervisor greets her with a smile and wishes her a pleasant day - a major change after years of physical and verbal abuse from managers in Bangladesh’s $28 billion garment industry.

The country is missing out on a huge amount of revenue due to the illegal employment of foreigners