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The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, is ready to battle it out with Heritage Bank after sack of workers.
The government has introduced significant changes regarding trade unions. Factories employing over 3,000 workers can now establish a trade union with the endorsement of 15% of the workers.
Human Resource (HR) practitioners have been advised to consider themselves as agents of change especially when applying the Labour Act 2003, Act...
<p>This week’s article will look at the duties of the employer in an employment contract. The three principal duties of the employer are to provide work, to remunerate the employee, to ensure that working conditions are safe and healthy and to discharge its general statutory and contractual duties. Under common law, the employer is required […]</p>
The 90-page report, “Trading Lives for Profit: How the Shipping Industry Circumvents Regulations to Scrap Toxic Ships on Bangladesh’s Beaches” finds that Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards often take shortcuts on safety measures, dump toxic waste directly onto the beach and the surrounding environment, and deny workers living wages, rest, or compensation in case of injuries. The report reveals an entire network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor prot...