Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), the apex trade body to represent solely the knitwear industry of Bangladesh, urged the European Union (EU) to extend Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), a trade privilege, for the next 12 years.

Bangladesh’s export earnings rose by 6.55% to $21.32b in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, with the apparel industry contributing to most of the earnings.

Equal pay for equal work, the right to form a union—these, among other standards, protect workers from exploitation in the workplace globally.

Although Bangladesh has made remarkable recent strides like building green factories and meeting stringent safety standards, garment workers here are still paid one of the lowest minimum wages in the world.

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.

Uzbek textile workers signed a contract for the supply of yarn worth $5 million to Bangladesh. The agreement was reached during the visit of the Uzbek delegation to this country.

Sweater shipment from Bangladesh is on the rise thanks to competitive pricing and longer winters in the Western world as a result of climate change, exporters said.

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.

The first Labour Demand Survey (LDS) in Sri Lanka, conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, recorded nearly half a million vacancies in the private sector.

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