labour

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Bangladesh

May Day: Labour rights at stake amid pandemic

According to a recent report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a one-day lockdown reduces wage earnings of workers in Bangladesh by $64 million or over Tk542 crore

Aonkita Dey
Thoughts

Story of the Bangladeshi labour migrants: Current scenario and future reforms

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Trade

Zero tariff: EU unhappy about Bangladesh’s labour, education roadmap

Photo: Shakirul Islam/TBS Illustrations
Thoughts

Rights violation of Bangladeshi migrant workers: Who is to blame?

Need for an empathetic understanding of the migrants’ issues
Thoughts

Need for an empathetic understanding of the migrants’ issues

A laborer carries unfinished jeans pants on his shoulders at Noor Market in Keraniganj on the outskirt of the capital. With more than three thousand RMG factories, Keraniganj has turned into the country's apparel hub. Photo: Rehman Asad/ TBS
RMG

Keraniganj garment units to be child labour-free by 2022

Labour rights again come to the fore
Bangladesh

Labour rights again come to the fore

Workers wait to get hired at Cumilla's Kandirpar. The demand for the workers has not returned to normal as the country's economy struggles to recover from the blow of the pandemic. photo: TBS
Economy

Day labourers’ long wait to be hired in Cumilla

Daily wage labourers stand in a queue for free food at a construction site where activity has been halted due to 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, April 10, 2020/ Reuters
Global Economy

Covid-19 has lead to massive labour income losses worldwide: ILO

Atiya Marzia studied Bachelor of Laws at North South University and is currently working as a labour law researcher
Thoughts

Limitations of BLA in compensating workers for death and injury

File Photo: Mumit M/TBS
Bangladesh

Govt’s tough stance against recruiting children in transporting, storing, processing of rawhide

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Coronavirus chronicle

More could die from Covid-19 linked hunger than the disease itself, Oxfam warns

Labour crisis hits Narayanganj garment factories
Bangladesh

Labour crisis hits Narayanganj garment factories