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.

The US Department of Labor has called on the Bangladesh government to end the violent crackdown on protesting garment workers and conduct a full investigation into the alleged involvement of police in the killings of two workers

Global fashion retailers including H&M HMb.ST and Gap GPS.N are committed to raising purchase prices for Bangladesh-made clothing to help factories there offset higher workers' wages, a US-based association representing more than 1,000 brands said

New minimum wage will be effective from Dec 1

80 exhibitors from 12 countries took part in show

RMG workers’ platforms rejected new wage structure

The announcement came from State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian