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 »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 »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 »Bangladesh’s garment industry now a model for workplace safety
On this day five years ago, Rana Plaza collapsed, and with it went 1,138 lives and irrevocably changed those of thousands others.
Read More »Export earnings decline by 1.38pc in March
Export earnings fell 1.38 percent year-on-year to $3.05 billion in March due to a decline in leather goods shipment.
Read More »Illegal employment of foreigners hurting Bangladesh economy
The country is missing out on a huge amount of revenue due to the illegal employment of foreigners
Read More »April 02, 2018: good practice award, BGMEA building demolition and RMG Park land allocation
Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. Government to give good practice award to ten factories The government ...
Read More »Govt findings show irregularities in issuing appointment letters to garment workers
The anomalies in issuing appointment letters and identity cards are still high in garment factories, especially in non-trade group member mills, according to government findings.
Read More »Only 1.5% RMG factories in Bangladesh are located in EPZs
CPD RMG Study has prepared a harmonized dataset providing information of 6821 factories based on the collected enterprise level data from seven different organisations.
Read More »BGMEA and BEZA to jointly create garment park employing 0.5 million people
Apparel makers are likely to invest a total of US$ 2.0 billion at the proposed garments park in Chittagong's Mirsarai Economic Zone (MEZ), creating around 0.5 million job opportunities there.
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