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Bangladesh labour-law coming with amendments
Labor and Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain today said the government will bring 23 amendments to the existing labor law for making it more workers friendly.
"Presently, we are taking opinion from different stakeholders about the amendments and it is likely to pass in the next session of the Parliament," he told journalists after inaugurating a national symposium on rights of the labourers who are working in informal sectors at a city hotel.
The minister said the government has a plan to formulate a policy and a new law to ensure rights of the informal workers, 80 percent of the total workforce of Bangladesh.
"We need a different law for the informal workers as it's not possible to protect their rights within the existing labour law," he said.
Eng Mosharraf said they are considering formulating a specific policy for the domestic workers for providing decent working environment to them.
"Domestic workers should come under a policy while the informal workers in the agriculture sector need to be regulated under an organisation," the minister said.
The National Symposium was organised to take opinion from different stakeholders for initiating a new project titled 'Supporting Grass Roots Activities through the International Employer's and Workers Network (SGRA)' to uplift the living standard of the informal workers.
Japan International Labour Foundation (JILAF) and Association of International Employer's and Workers Network with the financial help of Japan government will initiate the project in angladesh this year.
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima spoke as the special guest at the inaugural session that was also addressed by Deputy Assistant Minister for International Policy Planning of the
Japan government Masaaki Luchi, Director of ILO Bangladesh Office Andre Bogui, general secretary of Jatiya Sramik League Roy Ramesh Chandra, President of Bangladesh...