Tag Archives: Bangladesh garment workers

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.

Minimum wage calculations must take into account some key factors such as number of dependent family members, food, housing, healthcare, children’s education and recreation

Spousal Violence (SV), or torture on wife by husband, causing significant rise in depression among female garment workers in Bangladesh, reveals a new joint project study conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and HERproject of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety announced the completion of full safety remediation in 54 more Alliance-affiliated factories.

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh recently released updates of its Safety Committee Training Program.

Much of Asia isn’t ready for robots, for reasons that go beyond fears of unemployment. In a positive move, countries are training workers to fix machines, writes Stephen Groff.

A survey conducted by IndustriAll Bangladesh Council found that 64 per cent of readymade garment workers cannot bear all the expenses of their daily essentials.  The workers need Tk 19,217 as monthly minimum pay to meet their family expenditure but the minimum wage in the sector is Tk 5,300. 

A move has been initiated to review wages of readymade garment workers against the backdrop of workers’ movement for pay hike and demands from national and international labour rights groups. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has requested the government to form a minimum wage board in this regard as the apparel factory owners have expressed their willingness to raise the workers’ wages.