RCC workers hold protests, demand wage circular implementation
Temporary and daily wage workers of Rajshahi City Corporation staged demonstrations on Sunday, demanding the implementation of the government circular regarding fixing their wage...
Temporary and daily wage workers of Rajshahi City Corporation staged demonstrations on Sunday, demanding the implementation of the government circular regarding fixing their wage...
MIGRANT Bangladeshi workers overseas are often reported to have run into problems, mostly because of offences such as overstaying visas, lacking valid documents and misusing permits. In the latest such incident, Malaysian immigration authorities, as ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· reported on September 4, quoting the Malaysian national news agency Bernama, detained 770 migrant workers in...
All factories in the Uttara Export Processing Zone in Nilphamari remained closed and a tense situation was prevailing in the area on Wednesday, a day after a worker was killed during a clash between the law enforcers and the workers protesting against the closure of a factory and lay-offs...
The proposed amendments to the Bangladesh Labour Act, allowing at least 20 workers to form a trade union at a factory, reignited debate between workers and factory management...
THE death of another worker caused by police action over unpaid wages demonstrates the government’s continued disregard for worker rights. At least 25 others were also injured in the clash with law enforcers at the Uttara Export Processing Zone in Nilphamari on September 2. While the family and fellows of the victim claimed that the deceased was shot by law enforcers...
Garment workers blocked the road at Kuril in the capital on Wednesday, demanding arrears and allowances...
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’ Profit Participation Fund...
Expatriates’ 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’s Bashundhara Residential Area...
Boeing defence industry workers currently on strike asked for congressional lawmakers’ 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’s 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’s 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’ 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’ 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’s Eurozone Fashion Limited will resume its manufacturing activities on Tuesday morning, that is today, said the factory’s 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’s 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’s 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 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 ‘syndicate’ 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’s 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’s 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...