The new wage structure for readymade garment workers would be announced after the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, Bangladesh Labour Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju has said. The Minimum Wages Commission, constituted by the Government, wants to ...
From July 19, 2013, Myanmar, previously Burma, would benefit once again from a special, advantageous trade arrangement with the EU, according to a statement from the European Commission in Brussels. Myanmar would be brought back under ...
Tags: European market, Apparel
EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht will be hosting a meeting in Geneva entitled "Staying Engaged – A Sustainability Compact with Bangladesh" on July 8, 2013. The high level discussion will focus on agreeing on ways for ...
Tags: Apparel
The Steering Committee of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh announces its plan to implement the Accord programme, which it delivered within the 45 days deadline. This pioneering Accord is a binding contract between 70 ...
Tags: Fire Safety, Apparel
Better Work Indonesia (BWI) programme and Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE), programmes initiated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), conducted a training programme in Jakarta-based garment manufacturing ...
Tags: Garment Unit, ILO
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that it has signed the multi-stakeholder Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, coordinated by the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO). Krishan Hundal, Director of Sourcing at Marks ...
Tags: M&S, Marks&Spencer, Apparel
The Government of Bangladesh has temporarily shutdown 18 garment manufacturing factories on the grounds of inacceptable labour standards and working conditions, Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui informed reporters. While two ...
Tags: Garment Factories, Garment
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce has requested the European Union not to impose severe conditions that may impact readymade garment exports from Bangladesh. In a three-page letter sent to William Hanna, EU Ambassador in Bangladesh, ...
Tags: readymade garment, EU
Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Trade made following statement: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the deaths of young workers from a ...
President Obama and Mr. Romney, during the 2012 US Presidential election campaign the world is listening, and the children, women and men exploited in modern-forms of slavery await your leadership. On this Anti-Slavery Day, the Cotton ...
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CSC customers are being urged to boycott the supplier over allegations that it took part in illegal CIA rendition flights in the US "war on terror". CSC has been linked in court documents to the rendition of German citizen Khaled ...
Tags: CSC, customers, allegations, CIA rendition flights
The National People’s Tribunal organized by the Asia Floor Wage Campaign (AFWC) has urged the Government of India to declare and pursue an active employment policy to provide social justice to the garment workers in the country. In ...
Tags: India, AFWC, Social Justice, Indian Garment Workers
Uzbekistan cotton has again come under the world's scanner for infringing international labour laws. More than 100 popular apparel labels like Zara, H&M, Gap, Walmart, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent have decided to shun Uzbek cotton, ...