Once the mainstay of Bangladesh garment industry, women workers are apparently getting edged out by the male compatriots even as total number of workers and even factories’ sizes keep increasing over the years.

The actual number of garment workers laid off has now started to become clearer with one of the surveys putting the actual number of workers laid off at 3.57 lakh.

Some recent reports suggest many garment workers who lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus pandemic are being rehired but at lower wages.

After a long wait, State Minister for Labour and Employment Monnujan Sufian inaugurated EU’s cash support programme for retrenched workers.

The BKMEA’s letter calling upon the Government to suspend the 5 per cent annual increment of workers for next two years has workers’ unions/labour bodies up in arms against it with the latter threatening to wage tougher movements to pro

A war of words has broken out between entities pertaining to the ability of the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC), which took over from the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, to carry out remediation.

Close on heels of the Government first declaring the stimulus package to help export-oriented industries to pay workers’ wages, digital disbursement of workers’ wages gained substantial grounds. However, reports suggest that of late, th

Once considered the mainstay of the apparel industry workforce, the number of women workers in Bangladesh readymade garment industry is on the decline, reflects some reports, the latest amongst which is the survey undertaken by the Mapped i

On one hand, global brands, retailers and interventions by global entities are pushing forward the drive towards circularity in the export-oriented apparel manufacturing and export sector of Bangladesh, while on the other, local weavers and