Bangladesh’s net export earnings from the shipment of readymade garments (RMG) contributed to over 70 percent of the gross export receipts for the third consecutive quarter ending in September 2023.

One more Bangladeshi factory gets green building certification

Matin Spinning Mills PLC, a concern of DBL Group, has announced a 40 percent cash dividend in the 21st annual general meeting (AGM) of the company.

Bangladesh is very good at making cotton clothes but non-cotton products could be bolstered by foreign investment

Bangladeshi high commissioner to UK says in meeting with FBCCI president

The salary structure will now have four grades in place of five

Eleven years on from the devastating fire at Tazreen Fashions, relatives of the victims and injured workers are still crying out for justice, proper compensation, rehabilitation and capital punishment of the accused, including factory owner Delwar Hossain

BGMEA issues letters to the factory owners

BGMEA president is now visiting garment factories in China

A Gazipur court today sent garment workers' union leader Babul Hossain to jail after a 24-hour remand

Business leaders and apparel exporters are worried over a recent US statement on Bangladesh’s labour rights situation while union leaders and trade analysts suggested bringing improvements to avert trade sanctions.

Bangladesh Garment Sramik Sanghati, a RMG workers' platform, today held a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club demanding a review of the declared wage of Tk 12,500 along with an end to the arrests of workers agitating for fair wages

A group of labour leaders of Bangladesh today complained to the visiting delegation of the European Union that the amended labour law is not worker-friendly as many anti-labour provisions have been incorporated.

Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector, a cornerstone of its export earnings, faces substantial trade preference erosion upon graduation from least developed country (LDC) status, said Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, chairman of the Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID) Bangladesh, at a seminar yesterday.

A delegation of the European Union (EU) arrived in Dhaka today to have discussions with relevant stakeholders on the country's labour sector

The government today published the gazette on the recently declared minimum wage for garment workers, setting the monthly pay at Tk 12,500 and reducing the number of grades to five from seven.

The deceased were: Anjuara Khatun, Rasel Hawlader and Md Imran

Also directs member factories that have been vandalised to file cases against workers responsible

Amnesty International in a statement yesterday condemned the deplorable use of force on protesters on Wednesday that resulted in the deaths of at least two garment workers in clashes with the police in protests relating to minimum wage

Nearly 4,000 member factories of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) have faced closure for various reasons since the country emerged as an apparel manufacturing nation in the late 1970s, data from the trade body showed today.