All factories in Bangladesh can form unions with 15% worker backing

03 May '24

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All factories in Bangladesh can form unions with 15% worker backing

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Bangladesh law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq recently said the Labour Act is being amended, by including the provision of 15 per cent trade union threshold in all factories.
The trade union threshold was reduced earlier to 15 per cent from 20 per cent, but was applicable only to units where the number of workers is 3,000 or more.

Bangladesh law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq recently said the Labour Act is being amended, by including the provision of 15 per cent trade union threshold in all factories across the country.

“As long as the labour amendment bill is not passed, we would listen to all our stakeholders or those international agencies who talk for labour rights,” he told newsmen after his meeting with a delegation of International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Dhaka.

Earlier, the trade union threshold had been reduced to 15 per cent from 20 per cent, but was applicable only to factories where the total number of workers would be 3,000 or more. But now the government has kept the provision for all factories, he was cited as saying by a domestic news agency.

The ILO delegation called for bringing down the trade union threshold.

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