Promoting Social Dialogue and Harmonious Industrial Relations in Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Industry
The initiative will work to enhance workplace rights and industrial relations in the Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Sector primarily through improved dialogue between employers and workers, particularly at workplace level.
Duration
29 October 2015 - 31 December 2022
Development partner(s)
Sweden, Denmark
Reference
BGD/14/05/DAN
Contact
Neeran Ramjuthan, Chief Technical Adviser; e-mail: [email protected]
The project will be initially piloted in the RMG sector, with gradual scaling up within the sector. However, the impact of the project and particularly that of the dispute resolution mechanism will go beyond the sector and cover all other sectors.
Project update
See Activities and progress of the project till December 2018.Project outcomes
- Outcome 1: Sustainable improvement in social dialogue, workplace cooperation and grievance handling;
- Outcome 2: Sustainable and effective mechanisms for conciliation and arbitration are established;
- Outcomes 3: Enhanced capacities of employers’ and workers’ organizations to dialogue and prevent and resolve disputes including those of gender concerns.
Conventions and Recommendations
- Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87)
- Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
- Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144)
- Tripartite Consultation (Activities of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152)
- Consultation (Industrial and National Levels) Recommendation, 1960 (No. 113)
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