Reiterating the interim government鈥檚 firm determination to build a new Bangladesh, chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus urged the workers and owners to work together to build the new Bangladesh on Thursday.
He made the call while speaking at a function at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Center in Dhaka marking the historic May Day and the National Occupational Health and Safety Day, 2025.
He said the 2024 July mass uprising created an aspiration of building a new Bangladesh.
鈥楾he new Bangladesh could not be built if the condition of workers remains the same - that was in old Bangladesh,鈥� he said.
Professor Yunus said the aspiration of building the new Bangladesh is 鈥榦ur responsibility and at the same time, a big opportunity鈥�, noting that such an aspiration was not created in the country in the past.聽聽聽
Highlighting the proposals of the Labour Reform Commission, he said it would be quite impossible to build the new Bangladesh without implementing these proposals.
The chief adviser stressed implementing the recommendations of the Labour Reform Commission, which need to be accomplished immediately.
鈥楲ater, we will start to work to implement the hard proposals,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥榃e have started the journey and it will continue.鈥�
Labour and employment adviser Brigadier General, retd, M Sakhawat Hussain, labour reform commission chairman Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmed and country director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Bangladesh Tuomo Poutiainen were, among others, spoke at the function with labour and employment secretary AHM Shafiquzzaman in the chair.