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[media type="image" id="943805" layout="small" position="right" caption="1"][/media] The proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 has failed to address pressing issues related to healthcare, poverty, unemployment, and CMSMEs even though they required special attention to protect lives and livelihoods amid the pandemic. The needs of the poor and the marginalised have also

25pc garment factories shed jobs despite receiving stimulus: CPD This is breach of conditions as owners agreed while taking the funds that they won’t lay off workers Star Business Report Star Business Report Twenty-five per cent of garment factories that received loans from the taxpayer-backed stimulus package retrenched workers in a breach of conditions, according to a study of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The retrenchment indicates that ...

The Accord has made “phenomenal change” on the ground, inspecting over 1,600 factories, says the BGIWF In the aftermath of the Bangladesh Rana Plaza tragedy in 2013, two initiatives were set up to oversee the countrys clothing factories for fire, electrical and structural issues – the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Alliances tenure comes to an end next month, and there are serious concerns for garment workers if ano...

The Accord has made “phenomenal change” on the ground, inspecting over 1,600 factories, says the BGIWF In the aftermath of the Bangladesh Rana Plaza tragedy in 2013, two initiatives were set up to oversee the countrys clothing factories for fire, electrical and structural issues – the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Alliances tenure comes to an end next month, and there are serious concerns for garment workers if ano...

By Naimul Karim, Thomson Reuters Foundation 3 Min Read DHAKA, April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mim Akter had to walk for nearly an hour before she found a rickshaw to take her to the garment factory where she works in locked-down Dhaka this week. With public transport in the Bangladeshi capital stopped, factory owners were supposed to provide transport for their staff. But many did not, leaving workers to walk long distances or pay many times the normal fare to travel to work. “The usu...

By Naimul Karim, Thomson Reuters Foundation 4 Min Read DHAKA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Labour activists on Thursday urged brands to extend a factory safety deal in Bangladesh ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, in which some 1,100 workers died. The collapse of the eight-storey building near Dhaka - the industry’s deadliest accident - on April 24, 2013 led some 200 brands, including H&M and Zara, to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Banglades...

Beyond the Accord Disrupting the unequal power relationships between global brands, suppliers and workers is essential for an ethical, sustainable industry Garment workers shout slogans while holding brooms during a protest demanding their due wages in Dhaka in September 2020. Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Eight years ago, one of the worst industrial disasters in history—the collapse of an eight storey commercial building in a sub-district of Dhaka—demonstrated to the world the heav...

By Naimul Karim DHAKA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Labour activists on Thursday urged brands to extend a factory safety deal in Bangladesh ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, in which some 1,100 workers died. The collapse of the eight-storey building near Dhaka - the industrys deadliest accident - on April 24, 2013 led some 200 brands, including H&M and Zara, to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. That agreement expires on May 31. Labou...

  VICTORIA -- The B.C. government’s new restrictions on indoor dining have already taken a major toll on restaurants and those that work in them on Vancouver Island. John Cantin has owned and run John’s Place in downtown Victoria for close to four decades. On Wednesday, he was throwing out food from his restaurant’s freezer. A day earlier, he’d been forced to lay off 18 employees at his iconic Victoria restaurant “There’s five people that have been with us over 36 years,” h...

Proposed Law Could Help Address Human Rights Harms, Climate Change (Brussels) – The European Parliament should seize the chance to strengthen the accountability of companies operating in Europe by requiring them to respect human rights and the environment throughout their global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 27, 2021, the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee will vote on a proposal to request EU legislation to hold companies accountable, including recomm...