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  Buyers tend to undo existing contracts with Bangladesh RMG producers

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 11:15am on May 24, 2020

  Bangladesh’s apparel units have said many foreign buyers pushed them to an extra difficult situation by trying to undo existing contracts even after product shipments,...

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  BGMEA warns British firm of action if deal broken

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:45am on May 23, 2020

  Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has threatened British retail company Edinburgh Woollen Mill that it would restrict the company’s business in Bangladesh for...

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  BGMEA, BKMEA for keeping source tax at 0.25pc unchanged

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:08pm on May 19, 2020

  The country’s apparel makers have demanded that the government continue with the existing reduced rate of source tax (0.25 per cent) and corporate tax for...

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  Owners want to cut RMG workers’ festival allowances by 50pc

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:37pm on May 15, 2020

  Bangladesh’s readymade garment factory owners now want to cut workers’ festival allowances by 50 per cent after slashing gross monthly wages by 35 per cent...

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  Garment Sanghati protests at BGMEA’s remark

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:40am on May 11, 2020

  Bangladesh Garment Shramik Sanghati on Sunday protested against the ‘objectionable remarks’ made by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association on Sanghati’s report that...

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  BGMEA rejects Garments Sramik Sanghati report on workers’ COVID-19 infection

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:26am on May 10, 2020

  Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association on Saturday rejected a report prepared by Bangladesh Garments Sramik Sanghati that claimed that 97 apparel workers died of...

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  BGMEA asks members not to sack workers

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:46am on May 10, 2020

  Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Associationon Saturday requested all of its members not to retrench any worker in the current month. ‘BGMEA has requested all...

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  RMG owners, workers form monitoring committee

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 11:04pm on May 09, 2020

  An eleven-member monitoring committee, including three representatives of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, has been formed to overview health of the apparel workers and...

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  Common Health to provide free telemedicine service to RMG workers

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 09:45pm on May 09, 2020

  Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and Common Health Bangladesh have signed an agreement to provide free telemedicine service to one lakh garment workers...

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  RMG trade bodies ask owners not to pay more than 60pc of April wages

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:31pm on May 04, 2020

  Two apparel sector trade bodies — BGMEA and BKMEA — are discouraging their members from paying their workers full wages for the period of closure...