All news: Transport equipment
Press release
Bangladesh Minimum Wages Board returns from study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam
Members of the Minimum Wage Board returned to Dhaka on Friday from a study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam. The aim of the study tour was to better understand the approaches taken in other countries in order to inform the Board’s on-going negotiations...
Skills training
Getting skills and jobs to Bangladesh's poorest
People from rural Gazipur and remote North Bengal, Bangladesh’s poorest region, are now being employed in the readymade garments sector after completing a 3-month skills training programme. The project is a partnership between Far East Knitting &...
Informal apprenticeships
Pakistan learning lessons from Bangladesh in structuring informal apprenticeships
A five-day visit of fourteen high-level officials from Pakistan’s public and private sector concluded today. The officials were here to learn about how the government and industry are working together to structure apprenticeships in Bangladesh’s...
Bangladesh
Apprenticeships for youth employment
Informal apprenticeships are an effective way to ensure youth employment and empowerment, high-level officials from the ILO, BRAC and the Ministry of Primary & Mass Education stated this week. The comments were made after almost 1,000 learners from...
Bangladesh
Assessment of garment factories to begin, to ensure building, fire and electrical safety
Garment industry stakeholders agree need for common safety standards.
Assessment of structural integrity and fire safety of RMG factories to begin in September
Bangladesh Government, employers and workers organizations sign integrated national action plan on fire safety and structural integrity in...
The plan brings together the National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety in the RMG Sector signed on March 24, 2013 in response to the Tazreen factory fire and the Joint Tripartite Statement adopted on May 4 in the wake of the Rana Plaza...
Garment factory managers find significant benefits from improved social dialogue in the workplace
In order to improve compliance with labour standards and promote competitiveness in global supply chains, the ILO-Better Work Indonesia Programme has been supporting many garment enterprises in Indonesia in implementing the ILO core international...
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ILO to sign US$2.5 million agreement to support improved working conditions in Bangladesh
The Norwegian Minister for International Development Mr Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås and the ILO Country Office for Bangladesh Director Mr Srinivas Reddy will sign an agreement on 3 June. The Norwegian Government will provide NOK14.5 million (US$2.5...
Fire safety - Tripartite partners adopt National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety for the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh
Women with disabilities boost Chittagong's growing RMG sector
Chittagong Mohila Polytechnic Institute this week inaugurated a new competency-based sewing machine operator’s training program for women with disabilities.
New opportunities for persons with disabilities in Bangladesh
Gazipur Technical School & College this week inaugurated a new sewing machine operator’s course which included persons with disabilities. The course is an important step towards meeting the growing skill needs of the quickly expanding readymade...
Tripartite Meeting on Fire Safety in the Workplace in Bangladesh
A tripartite meeting on fire safety in the work place in Bangladesh was organized jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the ILO on 15 January 2013. Following the daylong deliberations, a tripartite statement of commitment was adopted...
ILO’S Press Release on the tragic incident of fire in a garment factory at Ashulia
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is greatly shocked and saddened by the tragic incident of fire in a garment factory at Ashulia adjacent to Dhaka on 24 November 2012 that resulted in the unfortunate deaths of more than 100 workers. The...
Regional experts discuss impact of financial crisis on jobs and global production networks
New research into the effects of the economic crisis on jobs in global production networks has been highlighted at an international meeting at Thammasat University. The meeting brought together experts and researchers from 14 countries in Asia and...
ILO Better Factories Cambodia 22nd synthesis report: Garment factory working conditions generally remain good, despite continuing pressure...
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia today releases its “22nd Synthesis Report on Working Conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector,” which assesses compliance with Cambodian labour law and international labour...
Crisis and the automotive sector
ILO meets with high-level experts to discuss the crisis and the future of the automotive industry
Against the backdrop of the global economic and social crisis, senior experts on the automotive sector from Europe, Asia and the Americas met here on 20-21 May with top officials of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss the state of...
Maritime sector
Proper ship breaking: a test for globalization and decent work
The last voyage of the ship "Otapan" to a Turkish ship breaking yard last July was a victory for "pre-cleaning" advocates of reducing the human and environmental dangers inherent in ship dismantling and recycling. But does it also lead to decent...
Fresh research reveals serious human rights violations of young foreign migrant workers in Thailand
A year-long study finds exploitation, coercion and intimidation in homes, farms, factories and fishing boats.