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Bangladeshi garment workers "routinely" paid less than living wage
2018-04-24 16:29:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Garment workers in Bangladesh are earning poverty-level wages, often while relying upon excessive hours of overtime to lift their earnings towards a living wage, a new report has found.
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Pressing need to improve Bangladeshi labour conditions
2016-08-09 14:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
There is a "pressing need" for further action by Bangladeshi authorities to improve labour conditions in the country's garment sector, says a new EU report.
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Axiata, Bharti Airtel to merge Bangladeshi ops
2016-01-28 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Combined entity to boast nearly 40 million mobile subscribers; Malaysia-based Axiata to take controlling share.
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Injury insurance to "benefit" Bangladeshi industry
2015-01-27 13:40:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Setting up an employment injury insurance (EII) scheme for Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector would benefit the workforce and the industry as a whole, says the ILO (International Labour Organization).
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Bangladeshi Engineers Survey 70 Garment Factories; They Find Serious Problems In Six Of Them
2013-07-13 16:37:28| Apparel - Topix.net
A sample of 70 ready-made Bangladeshi garment factories surveyed by a group of local civil engineers found two of the factories needed to be closed immediately due to major structural concerns while four others were in immediate critical need of further structural analyses.