Tag Archives: labour rights

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 group of socially responsible investors has urged 160 major retailers who source clothes from Bangladesh to back the extension of an agreement which promotes the safety of millions of workers in garment factories in the South Asian nation.

In 2010 a spate of suicides at factories in southern China owned by Foxconn, a contract manufacturer for some of the world’s leading electronics brands, highlighted poor conditions faced by its assembly workers.

Bangladesh's trade privilege in US markets has been again denied as President Donald Trump's administration goes on to enforce the trade preference programme's eligibility this week.

On 24 November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh led to the death of at least 112 workers, while the collapse of the Rana Plaza building just five months later killed 1,134 garment workers and injured hundreds of survivors.

International Labour Organization (ILO) outgoing Bangladesh Country Director Srinivas B Reddy has said the organization will focus on social dialogue to promote freedom of association, collective bargaining, workplace safety, skills development for market needs and labor migration in Bangladesh for the next five years.

Victims of Tazreen Fashions fire and their families are still crying for justice even five years after the deadly fire that killed at least 112 workers and injured several hundred on November 24, 2012. Several injured victims and relatives of the dead and missing workers said their hope for justice was fading day by day as the trial process failed to make any significant progress over the last five years.

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 ...

Some news highlights relevant to RMG sector: Five leading RMG buyers i.e. H&M, Inditex (Zara), C&A, Next and Tchibo and Ethical Trading Initiative have withdrawn from the upcoming Dhaka Apparel Summit over deterioration of labour rights in Bangladesh garment industry.