Bangladesh Government has reformed the labour rules review committee, formed in 2019 to amend the Bangladesh Labour Rules 2015, for a second time.
This was underlined in a recent media report which maintained that the Labour Ministry with the aim to make the rules time-befitting, on 4 March 2019, formed a 10-member committee (headed by an Additional Secretary) to amend the labour rules in line with the Bangladesh Labour (amended) Act 2018 even as it issued a Gazette notice on 19 March 2019, asking the committee to prepare a draft amendment to the rules within six months to implement the latest amendments to the Labour Act.
However, the Labour Ministry later, reportedly, restructured the committee on 1 October 2019, to induct a representative from the Labour Department and to include the name of Shukkur Mahmud (the then Jatiya Shramik League President) into the committee while according to a Gazette notice issued on 17 February, the concerned ministry again restructured the committee for a second time on 31 January this year even as it gave another six months to the re-organised committee to prepare a draft amendment to the rules from the day of issuance of the Gazette notice.
As per a report which cited committee convener Md. Rezaul Haque, the January reshuffling of the committee was carried out subsequent to the deaths of two committee members namely National Coordination Committee for Workers Education Chairman Md. Delwer Hossain and Jatiya Shramik League president Shukkur Mahmud.
