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  Accord for new wage board for RMG sector workers Writes to PM

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:29pm on January 20, 2017

  The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a consortium of European fashion brands and buyers, has requested the Bangladesh government to form a...

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  9 more RMG units lose ties with buyers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:04am on December 29, 2016

  The number of readymade garment factories in which global buyers cut business relations on charge of failure in fixing safety faults reached to 187 with...

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  RMG owners close 55 units at Ashulia

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:35pm on December 20, 2016

  Apparel factory owners on Tuesday announced closure of 55 factories in Ashulia industrial belt on the outskirts of the capital for an indefinite period amid...

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  Shortage of skilled workforce challenge to achieving $50b export target by 2021

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:12am on December 20, 2016

  Readymade garment entrepreneurs on Monday said that shortage of skilled workforce was a big challenge to achieve the target of export earnings of US$ 50...

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  Alliance cuts ties with six more RMG factories

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:32pm on December 17, 2016

  North American fashion brands and retailers have cut business relations with six more Bangladeshi supplier readymade garment factories on charge of failure in making required...

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  Most of RMG workers face abusive behaviour in workplace: study

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:35pm on December 15, 2016

  Behaviour of management with workers in the readymade garment sector of Bangladesh has worsened in 2015-16, according to a recent survey report...

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  Buyers cut ties with 8 more RMG units

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:49pm on December 01, 2016

  Western fashion retailers’ and buyers’ groups have cut business relations with eight more Bangladeshi supplier companies on charge of failure in implementing workplace safety programme...

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  B’desh yet to ensure worker rights in RMG sector: Bernicat

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:05pm on November 28, 2016

  US ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Monday said that the government of Bangladesh was yet to ensure workers’ rights in the readymade garment sector...

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  Bernicat to discuss GSP issue with Donald Trump 

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha | Updated at 09:22pm on November 12, 2016

  United States ambassador to Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Saturday said that she would discuss the GSP issue with the US president-elect Donald Trump...

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  Buyers cut ties with 150 RMG units

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:16pm on October 31, 2016

  The global fashion brands and retailers on Monday announced to cut business relations with five more readymade garment factories in Bangladesh taking the total number...