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Garment accessories and packaging manufacturers have called on the government to provide them with long term policy support including cash incentives and equal corporate tax for the backyard linkage industry to enlarge direct export.

77% of Indian workers will have vulnerable employment by 2019; labour experts say increase in contract labour and own-account work coupled with declining unemployment is the reason.

A CEO from one of the world’s top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh earns in his entire life, non-profit organization Oxfam International revealed in a report on Monday.

Unions representing Bangladeshi textile workers have reached a landmark $2.3m settlement with a multinational apparel brand after it was accused of delays in remedying life-threatening hazards at its factories.

In April 2013, an eight-story building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,000 people, many of them women making garments for well-known international brands.

The government has decided to ease the condition for getting new market exploration assistance for the readymade garment exporters by allowing them to repatriate their export earnings from any country.

Garment exports to India soared 66.41 percent in the first six months of the fiscal year on the back of demand from Western brands operating in the neighbouring country and closure of some small- and medium-scale factories.

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'.