Unilever Bangladesh Limited contributed Tk 81,777,100 and Unilever Consumer Care Limited Tk 4,498,200 to the Bangladesh Workers Welfare Foundation Fund under the labour and employment ministry as part of their statutory commitment to the Workers鈥� Profit Participation Fund...
Expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment adviser Asif Nazrul on Wednesday said that Malaysia might take fresh 30,000 workers from Bangladesh as it was set to reopen its labour market to foreign workers...
The police on Saturday recovered the bodies of three construction workers from a water tank at an under-construction building in the capital鈥檚 Bashundhara Residential Area...
Boeing defence industry workers currently on strike asked for congressional lawmakers鈥� support on Wednesday as they seek to pressure the aviation giant to improve its bargaining offer to the union...
Three workers were killed and two others seriously injured when the roof of an old building collapsed during demolition work at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation鈥檚 Irrigation Office in the Nagra area of Netrakona town...
Workers and employees of the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Limited at Anwara upazila in Chattogram staged a protest rally on Thursday, demanding an end to disparity in pay structure...
Sandhani Life Insurance held a Business Development Meeting at the auditorium of the company head office with more than one hundred development workers and officials from all over the country...
Doner kebab meat workers in Germany were Friday savouring the industry鈥檚 first ever union-backed pay deal that ended a long dispute at a major supplier of the hugely popular snack...
Speakers at an exchange-of-views meeting on Friday said that the July Declaration presented on August 5 failed to properly reflect the pressing issues of workers鈥� rights.
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers have returned from Thailand following deadly border clashes between the two neighbours, a labour ministry official said on Wednesday...
Tannery workers, leaders and rights activists at a discussion on Wednesday said that tannery workers鈥� suffering had deepened over the years as the implementation of their minimum wage was delaying...
The government is under pressure to bring about major changes in documentation of the annual development projects to be financed by the World Bank to meet 30 per cent local labour requirement...
Bus services on the Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi route remained suspended since Monday morning following a dispute between transport workers of the two districts...
The operations of Joar Sahara鈥檚 Eurozone Fashion Limited will resume its manufacturing activities on Tuesday morning, that is today, said the factory鈥檚 officials...
Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway remained suspended for three hours as the workers of a ceramics factory blocked the highway, demanding arrears and other benefits, in Gazipur鈥檚 Sreepur upazila Sunday morning...
Politician, social worker and writer Md Abdul Bari Sheikh died at Labaid Hospital at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Sunday...
Libyan authorities detained on Saturday some 1,500 undocumented migrant workers in a raid on a neighbourhood housing them east of the capital Tripoli, an AFP reporter saw...
IT HAS been more than two months since the Labour Reform Commission released its report, outlining the reformation of labour law in Bangladesh. Although the reform proposals have not yet been enacted into statutory law, the commission鈥檚 report offers insight into the changes that should be made to the existing legal framework...
A farm worker has died after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on a聽legal cannabis farm in California, his family said on Saturday...
The Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh has called for urgent government intervention to stop 鈥榮yndicate鈥� control in the air ticket market, which has led to abnormal fare hikes and created hardship for migrant workers and general passengers...
Labour leaders on Friday at a shop workers convention in Dhaka city said that most of the shop employees were deprived of their just rights.
A teenage workshop worker died after the cornice of a wall collapsed on him in the capital鈥檚 Aftabnagar area early Tuesday...
As Cambodian garment workers took breaks from toiling in sweltering factories on Tuesday, they feared for their jobs after US President Donald Trump鈥檚 threat to impose a 36 percent tariff...
THE continued abuse of child household services workers speaks of a dangerous gap in law enforcement despite protective policies. Rights organisations and experts have raised alarm over the government inaction as violence has escalated. In the first half of 2025, seven workers were killed, four of them aged below 18, as monthly Bangladesh Mahila Parishad data show. In...
Politicians, academics, labour leaders and professionals on Monday at a human chain in Dhaka called on the interim government to regularise jobs of 10,000 workers of 4,578 Union Digital Centres across the country...
A 35-year-old construction worker died after falling from the third floor of an under-construction building in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur on Monday...
The abuse and harassment of child domestic workers prolong in the country in the absence of strict implementation of the existing legal framework for protecting children and domestic workers, observe rights activists and experts.
A construction worker died after being crushed under a wall collapsed during renovation work at the canteen of Dhaka University鈥檚 Institute of Business Administration on Thursday...
Sylhet District Stone Traders and Workers Unity Council on Wednesday threatened to go for a indefinite transport strike from Saturday if their five-point demand, including opening stone quarries for extracting stones in manual process and withdrawal of the deputy commissioner, were not met by Friday...
The police arrested two more suspects between Monday night and Tuesday morning in connection with the killing of a 19-year-old garment factory worker, who was beaten to death on theft allegations inside a factory in Gazipur鈥檚 Konabari...