BANGLADESH EASES TRADE UNION: FORMATION RULES TO PLACATE ILO
May 1st, 2018
BANGLADESH has eased regulations for forming trade unions at garment factories in what appears to be a bid to appease the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The government has decided to slash the requirement for workers’ consent to form trade unions from the previous 30% of a company’s workforce, to 20%.
“It was a government decision. This will ease the workers’ freedom of association,” Aminul Islam, joint secretary of the ministry of labour and employment, told just-style. “It will make the formation of trade unions easy.”
Islam said the ...
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