REGULATORY ROUND UP – BANGLADESH KNITWEAR SECTOR HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRESS UNDER EU, USA AND ILO MICROSCOPE
January 1st, 2016
PROGRESS made by Bangladesh’s knitwear sector in improving its health and safety standards will come under scrutiny this spring, through the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact. A second stock-taking meeting of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), European Union (EU) and United States-led ‘Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh’ was to be held on January 28.
A European Commission statement said the meeting would “take stock of the progress achieved since ...
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