The coronavirus pandemic, which is continuing still and has led the Bangladesh Government to declare another countrywide lockdown from 1 July in view of increased number of Covid cases, has had an adverse bearing on the country’s workforce with thousands of workers in the garment sector alone been allegedly retrenched on account of the pandemic, leave aside the other sectors.
Keeping the same into consideration, the Bangladesh Institute Labour Studies or BILS has sought special budgetary allocation so as to create a national database of the workforce and make available fiscal assistance to those who lost their job on account of outbreak of the pandemic.
According to reports, the BILS came up with this demand at a virtual post-budget press meet even as it placed a 13-point recommendation, including a specific policy and budgetary allocation for dearness allowance and workers’ pension scheme while underlining that sufficient budgetary allocation should be made in documentation and data generation, health safety, re-employment, skills development and social safety net of the workers.
Bharat Tex Special Report 2026 
