Rights campaigners at a meeting with the labour reform commission on Tuesday highlighted the importance of maternity leave for women workers, sufficient day-care facilities for working women and strict measures against sexual harassment...
At least 12 people were injured on Tuesday when transport workers attacked CNG-powered three-wheeler drivers in Rajshahi city, following a feud between the two groups over a prior incident, said police...
Rights activists at a discussion on Sunday demanded that labour sector reforms should take into account migrant workers鈥� rights to protect the foreign exchange earners from vulnerabilities...
The police on Sunday afternoon released two garment workers leaders about 24 hours after joint forces had picked them up before handing them over to the police....
The United Kingdom Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that two dozen Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, allegedly subjected to forced labour in Malaysia, could sue Dyson, a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer in London...
The government has announced a long-awaited wage hike for cold storage workers after 12 years, raising the minimum monthly pay to Tk 14,000...
Twenty-five readymade garment factories of the country on Thursday were awarded for their contribution in empowering women workers in the factory, said a press release...
Readymade garment workers have rejected the announcement of 9 per cent annual increase in their wages and workers from at least 25 factories in Ashulia on Wednesday refused to join work demanding a 15 per cent annual increase...
A group of truck workers blocked the road at Dhaka鈥檚 Satrasta intersection in the Tejgaon Industrial Area for over an hour on Tuesday protesting at the reported arrest of Bangladesh Truck-Covered Van Drivers Union president Talukder Mohammed Monir...
The annual wage increment for the country鈥檚 readymade garment workers has been raised from 5 per cent to 9 per cent, effective from this month...
Human Rights Watch criticised the treatment of migrant workers on construction projects in Saudi Arabia Wednesday ahead of the expected confirmation of the kingdom鈥檚 hosting of the 2034 World Cup...
The government has brought 15 new industrial sectors under wage regulations with the aim of ensuring minimum wages for thousands of workers engaged in these industries...
Thousands of Volkswagen workers went on strike Monday in an escalating industrial dispute, with unions warning that the crisis-hit German auto giant is intent on making mass layoffs and closing factories...
A construction worker, Mohammad Noyon Mia, 22, died after falling from the 18th floor of a 20-storey under-construction building in Dhaka鈥檚 Azimpur area Sunday afternoon...
Workers at German factories for carmaker Volkswagen are to go on strike from today over plans to cut thousands of jobs, union IG Metall said at the weekend...
Workers of a readymade garment factory set fire to three vehicles on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway to protest at the death of a security guard of the organisation in a bus crash, said police on Sunday morning...
Tea garden worker leaders on Saturday threatened to launch a tougher movement if initiatives were not taken immediately to pay their wage arrears and reopen the gardens.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said three aid workers were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Hamas-run territory on Saturday but the Israeli army said it killed a 鈥榯errorist鈥�...
A teenage transport worker asleep in a parked bus was burned to death in a fire triggered by a burning mosquito coil in Khulna in the early hours of Friday.
The leaders of Garment Workers鈥� Trade Union Centre on Friday at a protest rally demanded the implementation of tripartite agreement in garment sector and announcing 15 per cent wage...
Garment workers from Mahmud Jeans Limited staged a protest on Thursday, blocking the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Chandra area of Kaliakair upazila, Gazipur, demanding their overdue wages.
The government has asked the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh to include about 10 lakh readymade garments workers in its subsidised food items distribution programme to one crore card holders...
Tea workers from 12 gardens under the National Tea Company in Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Sylhet district have been on strike for over a month, demanding three months鈥� unpaid wages and rations...
The visiting United States鈥� delegation led by the special representative for international labour affairs at the US Department of State, Kelly M Fay Rodriguez, on Monday expressed concerns over unfair labour practices, complex trade union registration processes and legal actions against garment workers and labour leaders involved in labour movements...
Low wages and constant pressure to meet production targets have put significant negative impacts, including reliance on overtime, rising debt, health risks and limited access to essential services, on Bangladeshi garment workers, according to a study...
MILLIONS of Bangladeshis go abroad every year for work with the hope of financial prosperity and improving the standard of living of their families. Migrant workers continue...
The protesting tea workers of the state-owned National Tea Company have shut the Madhabpur Lake, located inside the Madhabpur Tea Garden, at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar.
The workers of Beximco Industrial Park in Gazpiur continued their protests for the seventh day running on Thursday, demanding salaries and allowances...
Workers in Gazipur staged demonstrations on Thursday, blocking the busy Chandra-Nabinagar Highway to press home demands that include compensation for injured colleagues, improved safety measures, and unpaid wages...
At least eight people were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka, Pabna and Noakhali from Wednesday night to Thursday.
