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Ready-made garments (RMG) manufacturers will have to pay a higher corporate tax as the government has proposed to raise the tax rate from 12 per cent to 15 per cent for the 2018-19 fiscal years.

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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.

Complexities in obtaining credit report on foreign buyers and suppliers are causing huge losses for local businesses, a recent survey found.

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.

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Rana Plaza may have been the most deadly garment factory collapse in the history of Bangladesh, but it was not the first.

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.