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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 ...

Long-term sustainability, strengthened participation in global value chain and enhanced competitiveness of Bangladesh’s export-oriented RMG sector must be ensured. These were some of the findings presented at a day-long conference on “Transformation in the RMG Sector in Post-Rana Plaza Period: ...

Bangladesh on Monday called for increasing prices of its apparel products considering huge investment made by apparel manufacturers that helped improved safety measures and working environment.

In the five years following the collapse of Rana Plaza, Bangladesh has made real and unprecedented progress in improving workers’ health and safety in its garment industry.

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. Govt asks garments owners to pay Eid bonus by June 14 ...

The government has initiated a move for setting up ‘industrial safety unit’ under the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments with the aim of ensuring safe working condition in all industrial sectors.

Instead of fulfilling its pledge to develop a compensation protocol in line with the ILO convention, the government is now working to reform the labour law by setting the maximum compensation at meagre Tk 2 lakh.

Bangladesh, the second largest exporter of apparel products, has outperformed China and India in ethical compliance in the apparel segment in terms of workplace safety in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association is yet to complete the central biometric database of garment workers five years after taking up the initiative.

Bangladesh garment manufacturers have called for a “commensurate adjustment” in pricing and sourcing garments from developing countries like Bangladesh.