Underlining the good work done by the Government in ensuring workers’ rights, Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has reportedly maintained that friendly relations exist between owners and workers of the country’s readymade garment (RMG) industry.
“The relation between workers and owners is very good now. Factories are experiencing peaceful productions,” Ahmed reportedly said addressing an International Labour Organisation (ILO) delegation which called upon him at his secretariat office. He further went on to add that the Government has amended the Labour Law to establish workers’ rights in the country.
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Highlighting the safety measures taken up and the improved environment created within the RMG sector, Ahmed said that no major incident have taken place since the Rana Plaza tragedy, adding that the Government has taken initiatives to set up 100 Special Economic Zones, with all required facilities for investors, in Bangladesh.
It may be mentioned here that a high-level team of the International Labour Organization, unsatisfied with the Bangladesh’s report on the existing labour rights conditions last year, had visited the country recently to assess the situation in this country.
Led by Minister Counsellor (Labour) at Kenya mission Geneva Elizabeth Onuko, the five-member team that included Sonia Regenbogen, Marc Leemans, Karen Curtis, and Veronika Vajdova, assessed labour rights issues in the country, especially trade union registration and anti-union activities in the readymade garment (RMG) sector.
