Manpower

Another 224 Bangladeshi workers were deported by Saudi Arabia on Saturday, although many of them claimed to have legal documents. Read More »

Happy that not drastic changes are happening due to the Trade Union Awareness, constantly we are Making. Read More »

Dhaka, Jan 05 – Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment minister Imran Ahmad on Sunday said the government has set a target to send more than 750,000 workers abroad this year. Read More »

Despite increased inflow of remittance in 2019, labour migration from Bangladesh has declined by about 10 percent compared to the previous year, says a new study. Read More »

by Juliane Bir on 20th November 2019 @jbir_ETUC Taking the EU directive on work-life balance off the page will require determined trade-union efforts, including in challenging prejudices. Read More »

Bangladesh has said the recently signed Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on recruiting ‘Specified Skilled Workers’ will help Japan receive more skilled workforce from Bangladesh benefiting both the countries. Read More »

Hoping that the Malaysian labour market will reopen for Bangladeshis soon, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Tuesday said workers will be sent to the country at the lowest cost. Read More »

The Malaysian government has agreed to reopen the country’s labour market for Bangladeshis ‘at the earliest time possible’. The process of recruiting labourers from Bangladesh may follow a joint working group meeting on November 24-25 in Dhaka. Read More »

শিশুদের একটি বিরাট অংশ এখনো তাদের মৌলিক অধিকার থেকে বঞ্চিত। একটা শিশুও যেন নির্যাতিত না হয়, অকালে ঝরে যেতে না হয়, সকল অধিকার যেন সে ভোগ করতে পারে। শিশুদের বিভিন্ন বিষয় নিয়ে কথা বলার জন্য প্রতিটি সংসদ অধিবেশনে অন্তত এক ঘন্টা সময় বরাদ্দ রাখা হোক। Read More »

State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell on Thursday said currently 28 percent youth are unemployed in the country. Read More »

State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell on Thursday said currently 28 percent youth are unemployed in the country. Read More »

by Per Hilmersson on 24th October 2019 The new European Commission’s ‘One In, One Out’ approach to ‘burdensome’ legislation would stymie progress towards safer, healthier workplaces. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 21 (UNB) – Bangladesh has signed an Agreement on Labour Cooperation (ALC) with the Seychelles, opening the way for manpower export to resume to the Indian Ocean archipelago nation off the east coast of Africa. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 4 (UNB) – Some 130 Bangladeshi workers were sent back home from Saudi Arabia on Thursday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers. Read More »

Dhaka, Aug 21 – The High Court on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over slow progress of the inter-ministerial committee’s investigation over the allegations of monopoly practised by 10 recruiting agencies engaged in recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. Read More »

By Thalif Deen UN, Aug 16 2019 (IPS) – The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is convinced that the world’s 1.8 billion adolescents and youth– a quarter of the global population—have a key role to play in helping implement the UN’s 2030 Development Agenda. Read More »

Dhaka, July 9 (UNB) — Leather industry workers on Tuesday urged the government to build an environment-friendly industry and ensure their rights. “Savar Tannery Estate should be built as modern and environment-friendly. Tanneries are polluting surrounding areas and the environment isn’t safe for the workers,” Tannery Workers Union President Abul Kalam Azad told a press conference at Jatiya Press Club. ... Read More »

The General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions has in a statement called upon the Government of Bahrain to ratify the new convention of ILO No 190, and thus realize a precedence in the workers’ legislation, compatible with its precedence in amending Labor Code by introducing the new article against perpetrators of violence and harassment to the law. From GFBTU on ... Read More »

Lisbon, June 23 – Older generations have “failed to respond properly” to the climate emergency said the UN chief on Sunday, while the young are “stepping up to the challenge” and taking the lead to slow the destructive pace of global warming. António Guterres was making the closing address at the UN-backed World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, and ... Read More »

Dhaka, June 20 (UNB)— Croatia has expressed its interest in recruiting quality human resources from Bangladesh in the near future. Croatia’s Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Labour and Pension System Drazen Opalic said that his country will soon forward a draft MoU to Bangladesh for this purpose. Once the MoU is signed, necessary preparations will be put in place ... Read More »

by Vasco Pedrina Arguments about immigration have polarised between restriction and liberalisation. But key are accompanying measures to ensure freedom of movement is associated with wage and social protection. Together with Luxembourg, Switzerland is one of the countries with the highest proportion of foreign nationals: they are responsible for one-third of the country’s total working hours. Due to Switzerland’s higher ... Read More »

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, May 30 2019 (IPS) – Rather than waiting for adults to act, more young girls and boys are standing up and speaking out on the world’s pressing issues. In recent years, the international community has seen a rise in youth engagement from education activist Malala Yousafzai to climate change warrior Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez. “More often than not, ... Read More »

by Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Waqar Rizvi A Europe of permanent electoral campaigning is one conducive to a permanent moral panic about refugees. Recently numerous reports have emerged of the mistreatment and abuse suffered by asylum-seekers and refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, in several EU member states, including Germany, Greece and Hungary (to name but a few). The United Nation high ... Read More »

Muscat: In a first for Oman, expats can now take their labour grievances to a dedicated ‘Reconciliation Committee’, which has the legal power to enforce settlements. The Ministry of Manpower of Oman has announced the pilot scheme in Muscat in an effort to speed up dispute resolution and to free up Ministry of Manpower officials from dealing with employment disputes. ... Read More »

Dhaka, May 21 – The BNP on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to deputy commissioners across the country demanding to ensure fair prices of paddy and clear all arrears of jute mill workers immediately. As part of the programme, Dhaka district unit of the BNP led by its president Dewan Salahuddin and Nipun Roy Chowdhury submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner ... Read More »

Cox’s Bazar, May 18 (UNB)- Law-enforcers rescued 84 Rohingyas from Pekua of Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf upazila on Saturday while they were waiting to board boats heading to Malaysia. The rescued Rohingya comprise 31 men, 38 women and 15 children. Five human traffickers were arrested and handed over to police after filing case with Teknaf Police Station, said Lt Commander ... Read More »

Chittagong, May 18 – The Bangladesh Coastguard rescued 17 Rohingyas from the St Martin’s Island while they were being trafficked to Malaysia on early Saturday. Five traffickers were detained from the Dakshin Beach area, said Lt Commander BNM Hamidul Islam, Coastguard’s assistant director (intelligence). “We raided the area after being tipped off about a human trafficking attempt,” he said. Seven ... Read More »

Dhaka, April 23 – Those who are involved with the law enforcement agencies and judicial process have to work neutrally. Otherwise, the trial could not be ensured, said Kazi Reazul Hoque, chairmen of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). He said the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, a madrasa student of Feni, was pre-planned. To prevent such incident, social demonstration ... Read More »

Dhaka, Apr 20 (UNB)- Bangladesh needs skilled manpower possessing technology-based knowledge in the digital economic era, speakers told a seminar on Saturday. They noted that the youths will have to gain technical skills to compete with digital economy of the industrial revolution.  The observations came at ‘Digital Economy, Fourth Industrial Revolution and Big Data: Impact on Bangladesh Economy’ seminar, organised ... Read More »

Within the Democratic Party in the United States there is a flourishing of initiatives, promoted by Bernie Sanders, regarding ‘guaranteed work’. This recognises the urgency to concentrate every effort on the revival of public and private investments. The Democrats reaffirm the democratic legitimacy of progressive taxation, proposing a steep increase in the higher rates for the wealthiest—in the proposals by ... Read More »