Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector, a cornerstone of its export earnings, faces substantial trade preference erosion upon graduation from least developed country (LDC) status, said Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, chairman of the Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID) Bangladesh, at a seminar yesterday.

A delegation of the European Union (EU) arrived in Dhaka today to have discussions with relevant stakeholders on the country's labour sector

The government today published the gazette on the recently declared minimum wage for garment workers, setting the monthly pay at Tk 12,500 and reducing the number of grades to five from seven.

The deceased were: Anjuara Khatun, Rasel Hawlader and Md Imran

Also directs member factories that have been vandalised to file cases against workers responsible

Amnesty International in a statement yesterday condemned the deplorable use of force on protesters on Wednesday that resulted in the deaths of at least two garment workers in clashes with the police in protests relating to minimum wage

Nearly 4,000 member factories of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) have faced closure for various reasons since the country emerged as an apparel manufacturing nation in the late 1970s, data from the trade body showed today.

The US Department of Labor has called on the Bangladesh government to end the violent crackdown on protesting garment workers and conduct a full investigation into the alleged involvement of police in the killings of two workers

Global fashion retailers including H&M HMb.ST and Gap GPS.N are committed to raising purchase prices for Bangladesh-made clothing to help factories there offset higher workers' wages, a US-based association representing more than 1,000 brands said

New minimum wage will be effective from Dec 1

80 exhibitors from 12 countries took part in show

RMG workers’ platforms rejected new wage structure

The announcement came from State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian

For more than 11 days, RMG workers have been protesting demanding Tk 23,000 as minimum wage

The BGMEA made the call through a letter

Opposition Jatiya Party MPs today in parliament raised their voices for protecting the rights of garment workers and increasing their monthly wages

However, they didn’t say how much the amount will be raised

If unrest hampers operation, factories will be shut, the association says

The Bangladesh chapter of IndustriALL says in a press briefing

Garment workers urged not to resort to violence over rumour