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

“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.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)