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

Bangladesh's woven garments are losing competitiveness on the global market mainly for longer lead time, poor backward linkage, and insufficient gas and port facilities, business people said.

'It is very obvious that financial discrimination is increasing in the country and it is proven that this discrimination will hit sustainable growth'.

Bangladesh is likely to lose about $2.7 billion in export earnings every year once it graduates from the Least Developed Country bracket, where it has been for 43 years.

Bangladesh has turned into a major source for garment accessories, as direct export of such items increased by 66.67 percent year-on-year to $1 billion in the last fiscal year.

Labour leaders have alleged that the real representation of the readymade garment sector workers has been ignored in the wage board formed on Sunday for the RMG sector as the government has violated rules in appointing workers’ representative to the board.

Partly because it is such a massive global industry, the textile trade is closely linked to a number of development issues such as employment and labor, and also the promotion of clean technologies.

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 government has formed a new wage board for the RMG sector to formulate a new wage structure for apparel workers.

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