Findings of a research has recommended for聽reducing the minimum premium on 鈥楽urokkha Scheme鈥� and thus ensuring mandatory聽participation of organisations and owners in the scheme to have better聽outcomes...
THE recent revelation of the torture inflicted on a 13-year-old domestic worker in the Bashundhara residential area of Dhaka has reignited the discussion surrounding the plight of domestic workers. The young girl, subjected to relentless physical and mental abuse by her employer, endured unimaginable cruelty, including being burnt with a hair straightener...
THE absence of a legal definition of caregiving and no legal framework as yet for the protection of caregivers have held back the sector that is said to have the potential to create about seven million jobs by 2035. Insufficient investments and an incomplete legislative framework for care work are listed as significant challenges in the sector, as a study...
THERE is an urgent need to set standards for labour practices across sectors, as experts at a discussion that the Solidarity Centre and the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies organised in Dhaka on October 5, as the labour law and related regulations fail to universally protect workers. The discussants have also highlighted the loopholes in the labour law...
Labour rights experts at a discussion on Saturday proposed an amendment of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 to make it inclusive for the protection of the the rights of workers...
THE interim government, determined to recognise the contribution of all who took part in the student-mass uprising that resulted in the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime, has talked about a foundation to archive the history, memorialise the contribution of the students and citizens who risked their life for a democratic transformation...