Notwithstanding the suggestions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to remove the legal minimum threshold as per the ILO convention pertaining to the issue of trade union registration, Bangladesh Government is, reportedly, unlikely to lower the worker representation requirement for obtaining trade union registration.
This was maintained by media reports, which cited unnamed Government officials in this regard even as it underlined that the Government was, reportedly, readying a roadmap to address the complaints filed by a number of nations against the Government (of Bangladesh) over violation of ILO conventions adopted at the International Labour Conference on 20 June 2019.
The report further added that delegates from Japan, Pakistan, Italy, Brazil and South Africa, reportedly, complained that Bangladesh was not following the ILO Convention 87 on freedom of association and right to organise, Convention 81 on labour inspection and Convention 98 on right to organise and bargain collectively, while also adding that the Law Minister, Anisul Huq, on behalf of the country (Bangladesh) might present the roadmap before the ILO governing body meeting.
The meeting is, reportedly, scheduled to begin on 15 March.
