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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 stimulus package could not guarantee jobs as many factories terminated workers. The factories ha...
The Accord has made âphenomenal changeâ 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 country's clothing factories for fire, electrical and structural issues – the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Alliance's tenure comes to an end next month, and there are serious concerns for garment workers if another agreement is not signed soon. Under the oversight of the Accord and Alliance, Bangladesh now ...
The Accord has made âphenomenal changeâ 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 country's clothing factories for fire, electrical and structural issues – the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Alliance's tenure comes to an end next month, and there are serious concerns for garment workers if another agreement is not signed soon. Under the oversight of the Accord and Alliance, Bangladesh now ...
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 usual charge is 10 taka, but I was charged 30,” said Akter, 31, who has two children and barely gets ...