The duration in-between govt is dedicated to finishing up sweeping labour reforms so as to scheme extra international investors to the nation, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus informed a visiting delegation from america.
“We are making an strive to make our labour rules at par with global requirements. It is my dedication,” he talked about at a assembly with the US labour and effect delegation at his location of industrial at Tejgaon at present time (25 November), reads a press assertion.
He talked about the duration in-between govt has appointed a irregular envoy preferrred to reform the nation’s labour rules and to contend with the troubles raised by local and world labour rights groups, the Worldwide Labor Organisation and Western countries.
The delegation changed into led by Thea Mei Lee, the deputy undersecretary of the US Division of Labour, and Kelly Fay Rodriguez, the Particular Advisor for Worldwide Labour Affairs of the US.
The 2 senior officers talked about the US, global labour rights groups, and high world producers that aquire clothing and shoes from Bangladesh aid Professor Yunus’s circulate to reform labour rules and hang employee-friendly circumstances in Bangladesh factories.
“All of these are unprecedented testaments” to what the Professor Yunus-led Period in-between Authorities has performed for the labour sector within the previous three and a half of months, Kelly Fay Rodriguez talked about, relating to the steps, at the side of the 18-point settlement signed between the government and the local unions.
The US officers known as for union rights within the factories and opinions of wages every yr to cushion millions of garment and shoes workers from inflationary pressures.
“It is animated for industry and animated for the economy,” Thea May maybe also Lee talked about, speaking in regards to the benefits of first charge minimum wages in garment factories. She talked about employee unions are “a practising ground for democracy.”
Senior officers of three high US producers, PVH, Calvin Klein, and Gap Inc, were additionally fresh within the assembly.
Michael Bride, Senior Vice President of PVH Corp., talked about they backed labour reforms in Bangladesh, asserting they supported the same efforts in Cambodia.
Professor Yunus urged the producers to converse the value hike of their orders every January so that the producers in Bangladesh can elevate employee wages accordingly.
US Payment d’affaires Meghan Bouldeb changed into additionally within the assembly. She talked about the US fully supports Professor Yunus’s sweeping labour reforms.
“We are making an strive to be companions with you,” she talked about.
