Tag: Manpower

Police have sought 10-day remand for Hifazat-e Islam leader Mufti Muhammad Wakkas in each of the two sabotage cases lodged against him.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh by Iraq was signed here on Saturday.  

Terming the new Labour Law a ‘weapon’ to persecute the workers, speakers at a roundtable discussion on Wednesday said the government formulated the law only to serve interests of the owners.

The World Bank in cooperation with UK-DFID and IFC is supporting the government to develop new economic zones in Bangladesh through the Private Sector Development Support Project (PSDSP).

Hotel and restaurant workers on Saturday demanded that their wages, arrears and Eid bonus be paid before the 27th Ramadan.   

Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry on Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment on Wednesday expressed the optimism that 30,000 Bangladeshi workers could be sent to Malaysia within next three months after the Eid.

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has created job opportunities for 140 destitute rural women of Narsingdi Sadar upazla under the ‘Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Project’ (RERMP).

The remittance inflow in the country has stood at US$ 1,007.32 million as of July 26, according to the central bank’s provisional figure.  

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Youngone Corporation Kihak Sung has assured the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) of providing trainings and other related cooperation from Youngone to create 2,000 new entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.

BGMEA President M Atiqul Islam on Thursday said their members want to work together for the survival of the country’s RMG sector instead of blaming each other.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) on Thursday said there is no need to enact any law to ban hartal as people themselves have already started coming out to stop it.

A four-day border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) concluded at Benapole in Jessore on Saturday.

BGMEA, the association of ready-made garment factory owners, has held the promoter of Rana Plaza and owners of five garment factories it housed as responsible for the casualties and recommended punishment for them.

The country received $ 1,087.19 million in remittance during the month of May this year from wage earners abroad with the highest mount of $ 256.56 million coming from Saudi Arabia.

The multi-million dollar dog and pony show that is Wal-Mart’s Annual Meeting started off on its usual celebratory note on Friday morning with 14,000 workers and shareholders cheering and whooping along with host Hugh Jackman, the Hollywood star, and musical…

Primark started the process of paying compensation to thousands of workers and their families who were involved in the Rana Plaza factory disaster, as campaigners said retailers must do more to protect workers` rights.

Top US companies are now in negotiations to agree on new safety standards for their clothing-producing contractors in Bangladesh, a month after a garment factory’s collapse in Dhaka killed more than 1,100 workers.

Bangladesh missions in Riyadh and Jeddah have extended consular services to over 100,000 Bangladesh nationals till Thursday evening since the declaration of an amnesty by the Saudi government.

A 2-day  expatriate banking and remittance fair held from May 24 to 25 at Ambika Moida in Fairdpur targeting to channelize remittance through banking, has fetched huge crowd. A total of 15 commercial banks have demonstrated their expatriate banking and…

Readymade garment workers withdrew their protest programme of road blockade on Monday after five-hour as they were given assurance to meet their demands.

The agitated readymade garment workers went on strike demanding salary increase on Saturday morning and the authorities of garments shut their factories.

The government will constitute a wage board next week to fix the new salary structure of the readymade garment workers.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday said Oman will recruit over 500 professional physicians from Bangladesh alongside general workers.

Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agency (BAIRA) president Shah Jalam Majumder categorically said that Bangladesh might lose the labour market in Malaysia due to interference of a third party.

Trade bodies of the country’s apparel sector on Tuesday urged the political parties concerned to withdraw their May 8-9 hartal for the sake of the readymade garment industry and the economy as a whole. 

Different organisations and individuals donated Tk over 30 million to therelief fund of the Prime Minister for the Savar victims.

Leaders of the Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) sat in a fresh meeting with a number of ministers and labour leaders on Friday night to discuss the next course of actions hours after holding a press conference.

Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection of Greece Nikolaos Dendias has assured the Bangladesh Ambassador there of providing adequate safety and security to Bangladeshi workers in Nea Manolada and the neighboring areas.

A total of 6,919 members of the armed forces are now engaged in the UN peacekeeping missions, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told Parliament on Tuesday.