About half of the industrial disputes that took place last year were in the garment sector, according to the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS).
Read More »May 03, 2018: remittance inflow growth, capital machinery import and Denim Expo
Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. Remittance inflow rise by 17.51% The inflow of overall remittance jumped ...
Read More »Denmark retailers pay highest for garment items among European nations
Danish retailers pay the highest among the 28 European nations when it comes to garment items and the British ones the lowest, according to a survey by the International Apparel Federation.
Read More »Two new bodies to take over safety monitoring duties from Accord, Alliance
Two new bodies will act as transitional safety supervisors in the garment sector after the expiry of the tenure of Accord and Alliance.
Read More »Majority of garment workers are out of the formal banking system
Majority of the readymade garment workers are out of the formal banking system and deprived of wage digitisation due to payment of their wages in cash, said speakers at a discussion on Thursday.
Read More »Workers’ empowerment key to sustaining workplace safety
Labour leaders say unions need to be independent of foreign funding and NGOs and must unite to fight for their rights
Read More »Five years after Rana Plaza many workers still work in unsafe conditions
Although safety is a higher priority five years on from the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed 1,135 garment workers, dangerous conditions persist in smaller factories, campaigners said.
Read More »Bangladesh still popular destination for low-cost apparel sourcing
Bangladesh is still a lucrative destination for sourcing low-cost garment items, coming second to only China, according to the Global Sourcing Survey-2018 by the AsiaInspection, which provides inspection services to global brands.
Read More »April 22, 2018: protests for worker safety, remittance growth and FDI decline
Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. Rights groups urge brand to sign Accord International Labor Rights Forum, ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump’s Chinese manufacturing line will remain untouched by tariff hike
Donald Trump has levied sanctions against $50 billion worth of Chinese goods and threatened to implement $100 billion more on a variety of products — but absent from any of those sanctions would be the clothes that Ivanka Trump’s fashion line manufactures in China.
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