Tag Archives: workplace safety

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 ...

The government on Thursday extended the deadline for completing remediation works in the readymade garment factories, which are being inspected under the joint initiative of the Bangladesh government and the International Labour Organisation, up to December this year.

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.

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

Bangladesh is moving towards a safer and compliant manufacturing industry, especially in the apparel and leather industries.

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.

Published in the Financial Express on 14, May, 2017 State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque Sunday said the tenure of Accord and Alliance need not to be extended as Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC) will oversee workplace safety issues of RMG ...

Some news highlights relevant to RMG sector: An export-oriented RMG company, Liberty Fashion’s Chairman and Managing Director, Mozammel Huq demanded at a press conference resumption of the factory operations following an “arbitrary report on workplace safety” by Medway Consultancy Services (MCS).